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WELCOME n the 40 or so years since the modern Napa Valley wine industry began its ascent to world prominence, it has changed the landscape of the valley in myriad ways. Not only by supporting the planting of thousands of acres of lovely vineyards and preserving open space at then northern edge of the Bay Area metropolis of millions, but by giving rise to a culture and economy that celebrates California traditions, cuisine and the arts. In this issue of Inside Napa Valley, we take a close look at the variety of unique and thriving establishments that have come to call the Napa Valley home. They include di Rosa, a fascinating indoor-outdoor art gallery in the picturesque hills of Carneros that features hundreds of works by renowned Bay Area artists; the Oat Hill Mine Trail, where wagon wheel ruts carved into the Calistoga hillsides during pioneer days are still visible; the Napa Valley Country Club, a jewel tucked into the folds of Coombsville with a rich legacy and rolling greens; the Jarvis Winery, an eye-popping example of the architecture and design work of area vintners; and cutting-
edge cuisine at restaurants including Napa’s new Oenotri, the sort of stylish restaurant that little old Napa couldn’t have supported just a few short years ago. This issue is a sampler of the diverse and pleasurable experiences that await locals and visitors to the Napa Valley. As always, Inside Napa Valley includes maps, a list of wineries and restaurants and a calendar of upcoming events. Inside Napa Valley is a quarterly publication delivered without charge at locations in Napa County. For a treasure trove of information about Napa Valley, including more on restaurants, wineries and services for residents, we encourage you to view the Napa Valley homepage at www.napavalleyregister.com.
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4 The Hidden World of Jarvis 8 A New Look Back 11 Arts in the Valley 16 The Napa Valley Country Club: A Hidden Jewel in Napa Valley
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The Hidden World of Jarvis Grapes arrive at this winery inside a mountain from nearby estate vineyards and don’t see the light of day until they emerge in a bottle
Wine barrels line the walls of one of the wine caves at Jarvis. The Monticello Road winery in eastern Napa was established in 1985. A unique feature of the winery is that all production takes place underground in the caves and the finished wine will not go back above ground until it is ready to be sold.
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he massive doors set in the mountainside swing open silently. On a cold winter day, it’s warmer inside the cave than outside. This temperature remains constant, even in the hottest days of summer. An office and reception desk are bright and modern, but beyond this, the light dims in long, narrow tunnels. Illuminated by sconces casting shadowy gold arcs, the single row of barrels takes on the aspect of treasure chests. The stillness of this underground world is broken by the curious sound of running water. A waterfall appears, plunging over rocks to become a subterranean stream. The tunnel ends at another set of bronze doors, which swing open to reveal a cavern filled with glittering crystals — giant amethyst geodes — where a glass-topped table is set for yet-unseen diners. The process by which a grape becomes a wine is mysterious enough in any setting, but the deeper one goes into this underground world, the more one expects to find Gandalf the Grey
An indoor waterfall near one of the tunnels at Jarvis, a Napa Valley winery built entirely underground. Founded in 1985 by owner William Jarvis.
stirring a vat — and yet the Jarvis Winery, 45,000 square feet contained underground and entirely powered by solar energy, is one superbly practical place.
Discovering a world of wine
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illiam Jarvis grew up in the dry state of Oklahoma before coming to California to study at UC Berkeley and Stanford. “It was only after I left home that I tasted wine,” he recalled. His studies, like his interests, were wide-ranging, from philosophy to particle physics. And after launching and selling an extremely successful telecommunications company in Silicon Valley, he and his wife, Leticia, a native of Pueblo, Mexico, decided to take a year off to live and study in France. They lived in several areas, including Paris, Angers and Marseilles, but their favorite, Jarvis said, was Rheims, in the Champagne region. Along with languages and literature, they found themselves studying wine. With their young son, Will, they also spent time at Salamanca, studying literature at Spain’s oldest university, and discovering, in addition to Spanish wines, the allure of zarzuela, Spanish folk opera. Back in the U.S., in the 1980s, they decided to find a weekend retreat in the Napa Valley and purchased a 1,320-acre property, once part of the Gasser cattle ranch, high up on Monticello Road in Napa. Remnants of the ranch still remain — two lakes, stone fences and cattle guards
The Crystal Room at Jarvis, the Monticello Road winery in the eastern hills of Napa which is built entirely underground. The winery was founded by William Jarvis in 1985.
— but the natural beauty of the spot, with its seasonal waterfalls, rocky expanses and old oaks, dominates the views. Deciding to have a go at growing grapes, the Jarvises opted to leave most of the land in its natural state, and planted 37 acres to grapes, the same amount under cultivation today for the estate wines. “We planted the vineyard without any idea of what we’d do with the grapes,” Jarvis said, but intense research into grape varietals best suited to the land paid off. Mike Grgich, who made the chardonnay that won the Judgment of Paris tasting in 1976, became one of Jarvis’s first customers. The next step was irresistible. “When everyone is saying what good grapes you have, you think, ‘Maybe I’ll just try making my own wine,’” Jarvis said. In the style of the lifelong scholars that they are, both Leticia and William enrolled at UC Davis, and made their first vintage in an old outbuilding left over from the cattle ranch. They quickly realized they would outgrow this facility. As they began to design a winery, the Jarvises made the decision to build it all underground, in part because “We didn’t want to spoil the natural beauty of the area with tanks and buildings,” Jarvis said. Creating their underground world offered surprises as well as challenges — including the underground spring they uncovered during excavations, which they incorporated into their design as the waterfall and brook. The Jarvises made an extensive study of other wine caves, and decided on a
circular shape that used parabolic arches, which, Jarvis notes, are not only elegant but efficient load-bearing designs. According to “Into the Earth” by Daniel D’Agostin, the Jarvis project was helped by the expertise of geotechnical engineers from the University of California who had “just made great progress in computer calculations for large underground spaces for testing nuclear bombs … As it was, it took geotechnical consultant Gregg Korbin more than two months of all-night calculations with UC Berkeley’s most powerful computer to model and design the largest underground chambers,” which include a barrel chai, used for barrel storage as well as events like the annual Jarvis ball for wine club members. The size of two basketball courts, the room is about 40 feet high. Embedded in the ceiling are fiber-optic lights, the colors and designs of which are computer-controlled. Powered by the solar panels outside the cave, the winery is a self-contained world where the grapes are crushed, fermented, aged and bottled. “The grapes never see the light of day until we release the wine,” Jarvis said. In addition to the efficiency of having all the operations within easy reach of the winemakers, the design offers the advantage of ample room. Among the innovations within the caves are two horizontal, rotary fermenters, which eliminate the need for “pumping over” — circulating the fermenting juice of red wine by drawing it from the bottom of a tank to pump it over the cap of skins for optimal - con’t on next page
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The Crystal Room at Jarvis Winery in Napa set up for an industry dinner and tasting.
extraction — but take up more space than traditional upright fermentation tanks. “We have the space for them,” Jarvis said. At the same time they were building the winery, the Jarvises were also doing extensive renovations on an old winery in downtown Napa. Today, it’s the Jarvis Conservatory, which has hosted a range of productions from zarzuela to puppet workshops for children, as well as film showings, a holiday concert and a new monthly program, “It’s a Grand Night For Singing,” which provides a stage for upand-coming singers.
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mbarking on winemaking, “We wanted the best advice,” Jarvis said. So he contacted Andre Tchelistcheff, whose contributions to the rebirth of the postProhibition wine industry earned him legendary status. Tchelistcheff, for many years the winemaker at Beaulieu, had served as a mentor to Robert Mondavi, Louis Martini and many others in the valley, but he was in his 80s when the Jarvises were entering the wine business. “He recommended his son,” Jarvis said. Dmitri Tchelistcheff, who had been working with his father for years, went to work with the Jarvises in 1988, and in 1994 became their winemaker. Now living in Hawaii, Tchelistcheff consults exclusively for the winery. Dmitri, Jarvis said, “is one of the few really great men I have met in my life.”
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William Jarvis, founder and owner of Jarvis, a winery built entirely underground into a hillside on Monticello Road in eastern Napa.
Jarvis, however, is a hands-on vintner, working along with Tchelistcheff in the early days of the winery. He recalled an incident when he was up at 2 a.m. for a scheduled pump-over but, in the dark, got his tanks confused and ended up pumping cabernet franc juice over a tank of cabernet sauvignon. “Dmitri wasn’t very happy,” Jarvis recalled. The mistake, however, resulted in the Lake William blend, which the winery still makes. The experimental testing continues to be the foundation for the winery program, which produces a variety of wines in small amounts all from estate grapes — cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot and chardonnay. The newest addition to the estate plantings is tempranillo grapes, yet to be harvested. The wines routinely garner awards and high ratings, including most recently, Best of Class and Judges’ Choice for the Lake William 2004 and the Reserve Chardonnay 2007 at the San Francisco Chronicle wine
competition. “In a way our vineyards were planted to accommodate the tasting room,” Jarvis reflected. “Dmitri feels you should experience the varietal.” “We have a different style,” he said. “One of the big differences is that we age our wine. We take the time. We’re selling a 2001 cab — it’s absolutely perfect now.” Today, working with Jarvis and Tchelistcheff is resident winemaker Ted Henry, a young UC Davis graduate. Also coming on board is Will Jarvis, a graduate business student at Stanford. The younger Jarvis has been a winemaker since he was in eighth grade, when, for the traditional science project, he got approval to make a barrel of wine — he just didn’t get to taste it. The Will Jarvis Science Project Wine is also still produced today, and recently rated a 93 from Wine Spectator. William and Leticia Jarvis, nonetheless, remain actively and energetically involved in the day-to-day winemaking. “People ask me, ‘Why are you working?’” he said. “I say, ‘I like the wine.’”
Jarvis Winery... is lcated at 2970 Monticello Road, Napa, is open for tours and tastings by appointment. The Vintage Tasting Tour includes a tour of the underground facility, followed by a sit-down tasting of six Jarvis wines, including a reserve wine, accompanied by cheese and crackers.The cost is $40 per person, free for wine club members. Tours last about an hour and a half. Visitors under 21 cannot be accommodated. To make a reservation, call 1-800-255-5280, ext. 150. More information about Jarvis Winery and its wines is at www.jarviswines.com.
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New A look back:
The Napa Valley Museum opens a permanent history gallery By Inside Napa Valley Staff
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athering 35 winemakers and grape growers in one place in 1984 was no easy task, especially for an artist trying to paint a group portrait. John Michael Keating persevered, however, and captured significant figures from the rebirth of the Napa Valley wine industry. Study the painting and you can find Robert and Peter Mondavi, Warren Winiarski, Michaela Rodino, Joe Heitz, Joseph Phelps, Brother Timothy, Paula Kornell, Myron Nightengale, Peter Mondavi, and Jack and Jamie Davies all sitting together at what was then St. George Restaurant — now Tra Vigne — in St. Helena. Amidst these titans of the wine industry is one journalist, the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen. The massive 7-by-10-foot painting was commissioned by restaurateur Newton Cope, who appears in the painting too, along with his son, John. “The Vintners” was unveiled to acclaim in 1985, and later ended up in storage. Today, it has a place of honor in the Napa Valley Museum’s new history gallery, which opened this spring. The gallery, located on the lower level of the museum, features changing art exhibits in addition to the museum’s permanent history collections, many of which have been in storage for years.
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The newly developed history gallery showcases the permanent exhibit, “Land and People of the Napa Valley” with rare artifacts on display for the first time in 25 years. “We are thrilled to bring many of our collections out of storage and to have this wonderful gallery space available for display,” said Tina Blakeney, interim executive director of the museum. “The space also allows for more changing history exhibitions during the year, so we can present theme-based exhibitions with a variety of objects from our collection.” The Children’s Exploration Center invites children to learn about the art, history and environment of the region through hands-on exploration of objects, including an assortment of objects found in the museum’s popular Trunk Program displays. Napa Valley history cases that formerly lived upstairs in the main gallery trace a timeline from earliest inhabitants to the current era. This display, which includes stations on the valley’s native, Chinese and Jewish history, is now enhanced by vitrines containing artifacts such as native baskets and California stones that resemble Japanese suiseki. Through July 5 the upstairs gallery is presenting “Quilts and Folk Tramp Art.”
1) One of the displays at the new History Gallery of the Napa Valley Museum called “The Jews of the Valley”, discusses the history of Jews in the Napa Valley. 2) “The Vintners-Napa Valley” an acrylic on canvas painting by artist John Michael Keating at the Napa Valley Museum’s new History Gallery. 3) A bust of George Yount sculpted by his great, great, great granddaughter Sali Weiss, on display in the new History Gallery of the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville.
The Napa Valley Museum is located on the grounds of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville. Take the Yountville/Veterans Home exit from Highway 29 and turn west onto California Drive. Follow the tree-lined drive to the stop sign and turn right.
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The arts are alive in the Napa Valley and late spring and early summer are filled with possibilities.
SUMMER IN THE VALLEY — music and more!
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ith two great performing venues, the Lincoln Theater in Yountville and the Napa Valley Opera House in Napa, already offering a dazzling range of entertainment, this year a third venue opens in Napa, the restored Uptown Theatre, which will become another live performance venue.
In addition, July brings back the Festival del Sole, now in its fifth year, with performances at the Opera House, Lincoln Theatre and other venues in the valley. Here’s a look at what’s coming up in May, June and July:
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Summer’s Festival del Sole fills fifth season with music— and more
Napa Valley’s Festival del Sole returns for its fifth anniversary season, July 16-25, This year’s 10-day schedule is packed with events, from classical music to tango and jazz, gourmet meals to free familyfriendly concerts, wellness programs and art exhibitions to wine tastings and afterparties, and a first-ever croquet match between artists and vintners.
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mong the artists appearing this season are tenor Francesco Demuro, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, violinist Joshua Bell, pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Conrad Tao, cellist Nina Kotova, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, dancers Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko, conductors Carlo Ponti and Omer Wellber, jazz/pop singer Nikki Yanofsky and, making a much-anticipated return as resident orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra (RNO). The RNO will be in residence for the next four seasons of the festival, through summer 2013. Napa Valley Festival del Sole was cofounded and is produced by IMG Artists, an international arts management firm. Festival director Richard Walker said, “Five years ago we set out to create a festival combining the best in music, art, food and wine. And we have done just that.” This year Robert Cole, former director of Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, joins the team as festival advisor. “I look forward to working with everyone involved to further the festival’s reputation for the finest in music and dance,” Cole said. The fifth anniversary season kicks off with a July 16 concert at Napa Valley Opera House, with award-winning pianist Conrad Tao and the RNO Four Strings, and soloists Maxim Rubtsov and Vladislav Lavrik. Chef Ken Frank hosts an after-party at La Toque at the Westin Verasa Napa. On July 17 the festival presents A Taste of Napa at Calistoga Ranch. Also on hand is 12
nutrition specialist Melina Jampolis to lead the first in a series of wellness programs. That evening, Far Niente marks its 125th anniversary celebration with performances by jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and violinist Joshua Bell, the cuisine of top chefs and dancing in the Carriage House. The concert July 18 at Lincoln Theater Napa Valley features the U.S. debut of Omer Wellber, recently named principal conductor of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. Wellber leads the RNO, Joshua Bell and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in a program that includes Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto. The next night, July 19, is A Night of Tango at Palmaz Vineyards, featuring the music and cuisine of Argentina. The program includes the music of Astor Piazzolla performed by the RNO Four Strings. Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Nina Kotova join the Rossetti String Quartet for chamber music at Castello di Amorosa on July 20. Renowned for its sophisticated, sensual sound, the Rossetti String Quartet is a frequent collaborator of the virtuoso French pianist. Jazz-pop prodigy Nikki Yanofsky performs at Castello di Amorosa on July 21. The 16-year old sensation who recently sang Canada’s national anthem at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics, is also poised to release her first studio album. On July 22, tenor Francesco Demuro and cellist Nina Kotova headline a concert with the RNO under the baton of Omer
Wellber at Castello di Amorosa. Also appearing is actress, singer and dancer Rita Moreno. A recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, and an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony award winner, Moreno opens the program with a special reading. The festival’s first-ever Dance Gala takes place July 23 at Lincoln Theater. American Ballet Theatre principals Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko perform together with stars from the Bolshoi, Kirov and San Francisco ballets. Festival del Sole presents Chris Botti, one of today’s best-selling contemporary jazz artists, at Robert Mondavi Winery on July 24. On July 25, it is the RNO in concert at Lincoln Theater with conductor Carlo Ponti, Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, and the Volti chorus. The festival’s fifth anniversary gala takes place July 18 at Meadowood Napa Valley, featuring dinner, a performance by the RNO Brass, and an Artists vs. Vintners croquet match. The festival’s closing night dinner is July 25 at the Orchard at the Carneros Inn. Concert tickets may be purchases on line at www.fdsnapa.org or by calling 888-FDS-NAPA [888-337-6272]. Tickets are available in person at the Napa Valley Opera House and Lincoln Theater box offices, the Robert Mondavi Winery and Castello di Amorosa gift shops. Prices start at $35. The Bouchaine Young Artist Series is free. For information on festival packages visit, contact fdsconcierge@gmail.com.
the uptown reopens with a whole new style
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hen the storied Uptown Theatre reopens its doors in mid-May, it will launch both a new era and a new audience to a different style of entertainment — live music. The Uptown first opened in August 1937 as a downtown movie theater, screening Hollywood’s best — and occasionally worst — films for more than half a century. In 2001, Napa’s largest downtown property owner, George Altamura, and Hollywood director and Napa Valley vintner Francis Ford Coppola purchased the Uptown along with other investors, vowing to restore it to its former glory. Craftsmen are busy putting the finishing touches on the elaborate restoration, readying the Third Street venue for its grand opening as a music palace come May 14.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is set to headline the festive inaugural party. Featuring jitterbug, swing, Dixieland and jazz with hits like “The Jumpin’ Jive,” Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has performed in wine country previously, most recently at the Napa Town & Country Fair and the Napa Valley Opera House. Tickets for the opening night concert and party are $40 and $50. Grammy Award-winning leader of the new folk movement, Shawn Colvin, will share the Uptown stage on May 22 with singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb. Tickets for this show are $37 and $47. May 29 Loud & Rich, Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson — makes its Napa Valley debut. This is the first time folk singer/humorist/ actor Wainwright and Thompson, arguably the greatest guitarist in British folk-rock, have teamed up. $37 and $47. June 6 Blues guitarist/vocalist Robert Cray returns to wine country with his band, $37/$47. June 12 Popular country/western singer/ songwriter Merle (“Okie from Muskogee”) Haggard will bring his band, The Strangers, to town, $70/$85 June 13 Part-time Napa Valley resident and king of blue-eyed soul Boz Scaggs is back with a special show, $75/$90. June 17 Although he launched his career at
14, it’s taken blues/rock guitarist Jonny Lang 15 years to make his Napa Valley debut. $40/$50. June 19 Song stylist/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones will not only perform “Chuck E.’s in Love” but her newest material from last fall’s “Balm in Gilead,” $37/$47. June 25 Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter Ani DiFranco makes her debut in the Napa Valley as summer begins, $47.50. July 12 Catalonian superstars, The Gipsy Kings, will make their Napa Valley debut this summer in support of a new recording, $120/$135. July 16 Blues singer/guitarist Keb’ Mo’ started his musical career playing the steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band. He’ll make his local debut at the Uptown, $37/$47. July 21 Lyle Lovett, ticket prices to be announced. July 24 Named in honor of a Monty Python sketch, Toad the Wet Sprocket is a successful alternative rock quartet and has had a number of hits, including “All I Want,” $37/$47. For the most part, all shows are scheduled at 8 p.m., with venue doors opening at 7. Tickets maybe purchased at the theater’s Web site at www.uptowntheatrenapa.com or Ticketmaster.
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apa’s history Opera House marks its 130th anniversary in 2010, and its summer line-up includes a a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s greatest hits, a nod to the works of the duo whose “HMS Pinafore,” was the first work performed at the historic, restored theater. Other summer shows range from community performances to acclaimed entertainers on tour. The Napa Valley Opera House is at 1030 Main St.,, Napa. For tickets and more information, visit the website, www. NVOH.org or call (707) 226-7372. The line-up from May to July includes: May 2 The Napa Valley Chorale performs “A 20th Century Revue,” of popular hits. 7:30 p.m., $25. May 6, 7, 8 & 9 “A Chorus Line,” featuring a Napa Valley cast directed by Olivia Cowell. Tickets: $12 (student/senior, 65+), $20 (adult). May 9 is a matinee at 2 p.m. Other performances are at 7:30. May 15 An Evening with Jimmy Webb, composer of classics like “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman,” performs in concert, 8 p.m., $25, $30, $35 May 16 Singing on a Sunday Afternoon: Napa
High School Chamber Choir in Concert. The 54-voice Napa High School Chamber Choir, along with several smaller ensembles, present choral music composed over five centuries, in several different languages from around the world, including works performed during their special invitational performance appearance at the Notre Dame’ Cathedral in Paris earlier this spring, 3 p.m., $20. May 21 & 22 Garage Band 101: Music of the 1980s. Napa School of Music presents a concert of music from the 1980s, 7 p.m., $12 in advance; $15 at the door. May 23 Pacific Chamber Symphony presents a program of lyric Romanticism with a Spanish twist in “Maestro’s Surprise: Eroica and Aranjuez Together,” 2 p.m., $32, $40. June 5 The Steve Chapin Band performs A Tribute to Harry Chapin, 8 p.m., $25/$30. June 6 Pocket Opera presents “La Vie Parisienne,” Jacques Offenbach’s mischievous, joyful paean to his adopted city. 2 p.m., $30, $35. June 11 Papa Doo Run Run. Formed in 1965, this group toured with Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys and had a 15-year run as the Celebrity House Band at Disneyland. They perform classic rock hits of the 60s and 70s, 8 p.m., $30.
June 18 David Grisman Quintet Plus One, For over 45 years, mandolinist/composer Grisman has been creating “dawg” music, a blend of folk, swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy, 8 p.m., $40. June 19 Missoula Children’s Theatre presents “Treasure Island.” Children ages 5–18 are invited to audition for the production. Auditions are June 14, 10 a.m., in the Café Theatre. Rehearsals are June 14-19: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Performance is 3 p.m., June 19. For more information, e-mail evy@nvoh.org. June 22 The Waifs, an Australian group with an international following, 8 p.m., $25, $30, $35. June 26 Napa Regional Dance Company’s present the full-length ballet “Alice in Wonderland” at 2 and 7 p.m.,. $20. July 18 Pocket Opera present Giuseppe Verdi’s glamorous and glittering opera “La Traviata” 2 p.m., $30, $35. July 22 Riders in the Sky combine wacky humor and western songs, 8 p.m., $25, $30, $35. July 31 Gilbert & Sullivan’s Greatest Hits. A matinee performance is Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. $25, $30, $35. - cont’d on next page
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THE ROBERT MONDAVI
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rammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti tops the list of entertainers scheduled to perform during July at the 41st annual Robert Mondavi Summer Music Festival in Oakville. On the bill with Botti are perennial favorites Preservation Hall Jazz Band, with the Court Yard Hounds (a new duo featuring two of the Dixie Chicks), reggae superstar Ziggy Marley and the worldtouring Afro-Cuban All Stars making their local debuts. Since its inception, the festival has raised more than $2 million for the Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra and Napa Valley Unified School District music programs. Tickets for all five concerts are on sale at the Napa Valley Opera House box office, by calling 226-7372 or online at nvoh.org. There are three tiers of tickets — general admission, reserved seating and reserved seating with dinner. All performances begin at 7 p.m. Ticket prices are as follows for each event: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, July 3, $60 (general admission), $90 (reserved lawn) and $190 (reserved with dinner). The Court Yard Hounds, July 10, $75, $105, $205. Ziggy Marley, July 16, $85, $115, $215. Afro-Cuban All Stars, July 17, $60, $90, $190. Chris Botti, July 24, $65, $95, $195. The gates will open prior to each concert at 5 p.m. for picnicking. Tickets are required for adults and children of all ages.
full-scale production of the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” The cast includes professional adult actors and singers as well as a chorus of children from the Lincoln Theater Napa Valley Youth Performing Arts Program 2010.
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The Napa Valley Country Club:
a hidden jewel in the napa valley To many longtime Napans it is known as “The Country Club.” By Inside Napa Valley Staff
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apidly approaching its centennial, it was founded in 1915 as the Napa Golf Club when the city of Napa’s population was 6,000 and Napa County’s population was 20,000. The Club has continuously operated at its present site on land originally leased from Frank Coombs, whose father, Nathan Coombs, laid out the city of Napa in 1848. In 1923, during a period of prosperity, the club incorporated as the Napa Valley Country Club, with 25 prominent Napans signing the Articles of Incorporation. They built a clubhouse and purchased enough land to construct an 18-hole golf course — 134 acres — from Frank Coombs for $7,500. Before that course was completed, the club survived many ups and downs, including two world wars, the Great Depression and competition from other major golf course developments. It wasn’t until 1990, with the completion of a “second nine,” that the club had 18 holes of golf. Seventy-five years in the making, the 6,150-yard-long course wanders through oak-studded hills and vineyards of the Napa Valley. In 1971, the club added tennis as an activity and today has nine courts and a professionally guided program for both adults and youths. A 1920s Berkeley Craftsman-style clubhouse completed in 2004 was the concluding piece needed to make NVCC “a firstclass fully integrated, family-oriented country club,” according to Harold Halterman, who joined NVCC 50 years ago. Halterman sees the club as having played an important part in the social life of the Napa community as well as providing recreational and social activities for thousands of members, their families and guests. “It offers, an opportunity for families in our community, in fact in our region, to belong to a club that offers something for everyone in the family right here at home: golf, tennis, swimming, plus social activities, both at the adult and junior level,” he said. “The Club has always welcomed community organizations wishing to hold receptions, parties, class reunions and the like, and over the life of the club, thousands of organizations have taken advantage of this opportunity,” Halterman continued. “The clubhouse and grounds provide a beautiful and memorable location for weddings and receptions.”
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Halterman noted other ways the Club has benefited the community. “Members — as were the founders of the club — are very active in various organizations from the Boys and Girls Club to Music in the Vineyards, and the numerous other groups that benefit the citizens of Napa,” he said, noting that the club allows boys and girls’ high school golf teams to practice and hold competitive matches. The club also hosts organizations raising funds for community institutions like the Dr. Dwight Murray Senior Golf Tournament, which benefits the Queen of the Valley Hospital, an event in its 36th year The club, which employs, 55 full-time employees and 28 part-time employees, also contributes rounds of golf to charitable organizations for fundraisers. As the Napa Valley Country Club moves toward its 100th birthday, Halterman said, some of the highlights include: • Taking a lead position in the effort to bring recycled water to the Coombsville area; • Completing the installation of a major solar panel project designed to support the infrastructure of the club; • Contemporizing club membership policies to offer single members the opportunity to designate a guest on an annual basis, a leadership position in the industry; • Inviting the community to participate in a golf event on July 12 of this year. “All in all, the Napa Valley Country Club continues to grow both its facilities and policies to recognize the changing needs of its members and the community,” Halterman said. Club activity remains at a high level despite the current economy,” Halterman said. “However, like most private clubs, turnover is a fact of life. Consequently, NVCC is always looking for new members to replace those who are retiring, and from time to time conducts membership drives.” A program initiated in October 2009 was successful, he said, with 30 new families joining the club. “This drive is now entering a second phase that also includes social memberships,” he said. “Social memberships are non-golfing, and comprised of primarily tennis, swimming and social activities, including full use of the clubhouse.” As the Napa community continues to grow, many people don’t realize that Napa Valley Country Club even exists, Halterman said. “The club is hoping the current membership drive will rectify that. “The club has been called by some the, ‘The Hidden Jewel of The Napa Valley’,” he said. People in the community interested in becoming a member of the Napa Valley Country Club are welcomed to inquire by calling Carol Svendsen, membership director at 252-1111, Ext. 10.
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By L. PIERCE CARSON Inside Napa Valley Writer
wentysomethings grounded in food at an early age, Curtis Di Fede and Tyler Rodde are living the dream. Eager to have their own restaurant before they turned 30, the two Napans opened the hot, new downtown eatery, Oenotri, a month ago. Neither long days nor stubbed toes have dampened spirits or wiped the perpetual smiles from their faces. Both young chefs grew up in families that ate well. Rodde prepared dishes for parents and siblings before he was 10. With roots in southern Italy on both sides of his family, Di Fede says visiting relatives in Sicily at age 15 reinforced his desire to cook for a living. While they spent formative years in the valley, Di Fede and Rodde did take time elsewhere to hone their craft. But when it came time to decide where to locate the first restaurant they could call their own, the partners returned to the valley they know so well. Oenotri (pronounced oh-no-tree) celebrates the food of Campania, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia, as well as the island of Sicily, distinct regions of southern Italy. Located in Napa Square across from the new Avia Hotel at First and Franklin streets, the restaurant is named for an ancient Oscan term for vine cultivator. Fascinated by a culture that thrived in southern Italy around 1000 B.C., the partners maintain the restaurant’s Oscan name pays tribute to the early settlers of Campania and surrounding lands and one of the early Italic languages. As Rome conquered territory occupied by Oscans, it assimilated the Oscan people into the Roman world. Oenotri’s menu spotlights pizza, pasta and housemade salumi, a process the partners learned while working at the
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acclaimed Oakland restaurant, Oliveto Restaurant and Cafe.
Hospitality in his veins?
Although he’s a self-effacing guy, Curtis Di Fede could spend considerable time bragging about one very well-known, respected member of his family, on his father’s side. A man with great foresight who knew the value of inviting tourists to wine country, Fred Abruzzini was Di Fede’s great-grandfather. Winemaker and general manager at Beringer Brothers, as it was called then, Abruzzini began inviting guests such as Tom Mix, Clark Gable, Edgar Bergen and Jack Dempsey for well-publicized tours in the 1930s and 1940s. He opened Beringer Brothers’ grounds for the filming of “They Knew What They Wanted,” starring Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard. Following a tradition established by Napa vintners at early expositions, Abruzzini organized a wine temple on Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939, but added something new. A map guided visitors across the newly constructed Golden Gate and Oakland Bay bridges to the valley. “His side of the family is from Calabria. I remember him talking to me in Italian and teaching me lots of tricks with coins. “My father was born in Palermo, Sicily, and came here when he was 3 or 4 years old. I went to visit our relatives there when I was 15. I really liked how they ate, the fresh vegetables, the fish and how things were prepared. When I came home I wanted to do what they did with all those fresh ingredients. But in the middle of New Mexico, the only fresh things are the chiles.” Born in Fort Collins, Colo., where his
father was football coach at Colorado State, Di Fede spent all of his Christmas holidays in St. Helena where relatives on both sides of the family still reside. “We moved around a lot because of my father’s career,” he adds, noting that his dad also coached at Iowa State and New Mexico State. “I graduated from high school in Los Cruces.” The vacation in Sicily inspired Di Fede to pursue a career in culinary arts. After high school, he spent six months working at Tatsu, a Benihana-style restaurant in Las Cruces. “I wanted to go to culinary school so I did a lot of research (about curriculum and related costs). I found one I liked in London (England) ... so at 19 I signed up and was away from home for the first time. The dollar was pretty strong in 2000, so it was a great time to be in Europe. It was a ninemonth program, but I stayed on for another four months for an internship at a London restaurant.” Di Fede returned to the states and spent a month in the valley before accepting a job opening New Orleans-based Commander’s Palace in Las Vegas. “We had huge numbers — 800 covers a night, and it was high quality food. I stayed there for two years before deciding Vegas was not the place for me.” He came back to the valley for a job at Bouchon in Yountville, working with chefs Jeff Cerciello and Josh Schwartz. He spent an average of four days a week working in the Bouchon kitchen, and another one day per week in Thomas Keller’s kitchen at The French Laundry. “I was re-inspired to cook by Hiro Sone at Terra,” Di Fede said of his two-year stint at the St. Helena restaurant. “I really liked his farm-to-table program and his menu.”
The Neapolitan pizza oven at Oenotri cooks another fan favorite.
Pizzaiolo Sebastian Knox had his hands full with handmade pizzas.
Oenotri chef/partner Curtis Di Fede, right, gave Tuesday night’s guests and vintner David Del Dotto, left, a sneak peak at a line-caught yellow tail jack (wild hamachi) soon to make its way into a dish.
The 29-year-old chef next returned to England to cook at a Michelin three-star restaurant, The Fat Duck, in Bray, just outside London. Six months later, he seriously injured a hand and took some time off, touring Sardinia, Sicily and Calabria, and, of course, eating and learning about regional cuisines. “I really fell in love with southern Italy this time,” he recalled. When he returned to the Bay Area, Di Fede walked into the acclaimed Oliveto restaurant and told chef Paul Canales “all I want to do is make salumi. He hired me, trained me and eventually I took over the salumi making.” Two years later, Tyler Rodde showed up.
Eager to cook
Wild fennel panna cotta with strawberries and Hoji Blanca olive oil is the handiwork of Oenotri pastry chef Jennifer Dolence.
A Vintage High graduate, Napa native Tyler Rodde contends living in wine country inspired him to seek a career in the restaurant business. “I was always interested in cooking growing up,” he said the other day as he and his staff geared up for another night of wining and dining hungry locals.
One of four children (one brother and two sisters), Rodde said his family hosted large holiday parties where he and his siblings were expected to contribute one dish each to the repast. “I think I was 8 years old when I made my first Caesar salad ... I’m sure everybody liked it.” His first serious effort in the hospitality industry came during college. “I worked in a cafe and beer bar for a while — I really enjoyed being in the kitchen,” he recalls. “It was then that I made the decision to go to culinary school, to make that my life’s direction. I really enjoyed working with my hands. I think I also liked the fact that there was always something to learn (about food and cooking). I found it gratifying to be on a never-ending educational quest.” However, Rodde readily admits he’s a culinary school dropout. He tried to cram too much into 24 hours and nearly flamed out, so to speak. “I had a job working for the Peter Michael Winery Foundation in the LA area, I was working at a restaurant and I was attending the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena,” Rodde advised. “I was
Tyler Rodde, chef/partner at Oenotri, chats with diners during a busy Tuesday night.
maintaining 14- to 18-hour days for three months and I knew I just couldn’t sustain that pace — even at 21 years old I couldn’t keep it going. “I felt I could always go back to school, and I was actually working in a (restaurant) kitchen. Since I was paying $3,300 a month for school, it was the first thing to go.” Rodde wound up not long thereafter a partner in a restaurant in the LA area. When his partner suggested Rodde buy out his share so he could return to his native Serbia to look after an ailing parent, the restaurant went on the market. “I knew I couldn’t operate a restaurant on my own, so we sold it.” He next turned to the corporate world, signing on with the Cheesecake Factory to serve as kitchen manager for its Palo Alto, Corte Madera and San Francisco stores. “I learned that in this business it’s important being able to speak Spanish so that you can manage the operation in a couple of languages.” He spent about two years with that organization before deciding he needed to “re-learn how to cook.” That decision brought Rodde to Oakland and Oliveto. 19
Although Di Fede and Rodde spent formative years in wine country — even swimming on the same team — they didn’t really know one another until they teamed up in the kitchen at Oliveto where Di Fede had already spent two years. “Curtis was my first friend on the first day,” Rodde recalled. “Yeah, I was giving him some pointers on his commute (to Oakland) from Napa,” Di Fede added. “We became close, fast friends,” Rodde agreed. It wasn’t long before both young men confided in one another dreams of owning their own restaurant. “This was both our dreams,” said Di Fede. “We both knew we couldn’t do it by ourselves. “We knew our strengths and our weaknesses and we felt we could complement both if we did it together,” Rodde declared. They first broached the subject of opening a restaurant together three years ago, spent a year brainstorming and another year searching for the right location. “We looked primarily in the Napa Valley, from Calistoga to American Canyon,” Rodde said. “All I’ve ever wanted to do was cook and have a successful business,” Di Fede insisted. “We want people to come in and enjoy the food — and to have it affordable so they feel they can come in once a week not just once a month.”
No pig in a poke
Open barely a month, Oenotri has proven to be a hit with locals as well as valley visitors. The daily salumi menu offers at least a dozen and a half selections, an offering that has been extremely popular with diners. A month ago for the opening, the partners were ordering one pig a week for dry-cured and cooked salumi. Any day now, the order will go out for two pigs per week. “We got in a beautiful yellowtail jack today from Monterey Fish, line caught the day before in San Diego,” Di Fede beamed. “I’m getting two pigs tomorrow, incredible lamb the next day ... I’m excited.” Repeat diners can see that excitement reflected in the menu, which changes every day. From subtle changes in the pizza and antipasti lineup to a continuously evolving selection of sizes, textures and sauces for the toothsome southern Italian pasta dishes, the Oenotri menu reflects the zeal with which the partners tackle daily chores and
challenges. The partners have found a kindred spirit in pastry chef Jennifer Dolence, a native of Wyoming who moved to California four years ago, transferring from the New England Culinary Institute to CIA Greystone. “She’s a beautiful addition to the team,” Di Fede advised. “I like how she’s incorporating bitter, salty and sour into desserts. It complements what we’re doing on the rest of the menu.” From herbs freshly picked in Napa gardens to imported cheeses and olive oils from Italy’s Mezzogiorno, from roasted Morro Bay swordfish with toasted pistachios to wild nettle linguine with white Georgia shrimp, the bill of fare at Oenotri is as remarkable as it is mouthwatering. Keeping with their goal of affordability, the partners feel they’ll never price anything higher than $27 a plate — and that will be one of the daily changing trio of secondi, or main courses.
Crostone of Pork Confit with Arugula Salad Curtis Di Fede Chef/partner, Oenotri Ingredients 2 pounds diced pork shoulder 2 Tbsp. kosher salt 2 Tbsp. red chile flakes 2 Tbsp. sweet paprika (get from Whole Spice at Oxbow Market) 2 garlic cloves 7 cups extra virgin olive oil (I use Arbequina) 2 Haas avocados Small loaf of Italian bread (Acme)
Crostone of spicy coppa confit and avacado with Knoll Farm arugula and garlic sherry vinaigrette.
For the salad 1 pound organic arugula 1 shallot 1/4 cup good sherry vinegar 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil (Arbequina)
Preparation In a large mixing bowl combine the kosher salt, chile flakes and sweet paprika and mix together. Next, sprinkle the spice mixture homogeneously over the diced pork shoulder and marinate for at least 12 hours. The next day preheat theoven to 350 degrees. In a braising pan add the marinated pork and the seven cups of extra virgin olive oil. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and place it the oven for three hours. Dice your shallot finely and macerate it in the 1/4 cup of sherry vinegar for 1 hour, then add 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil. Clean and wash your arugula and mix in a bowl before you plate the crostone. Cut the Italian loaf into large toast slices on the bias. Toast the bread in the toaster or the oven for about five minutes or until golden brown. Swipe the toast with the peeled garlic — kind of like a cheese grater (the toast being the grater and the garlic being the cheese). Next, slice avocado and drain pork confit from the olive oil. Place the sliced avocado and pork shingled on the toast and place on a plate next to the arugula salad. Serves 4. Bene appetito!
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Pizza is generally in the $12 to $15 range and antipasti are priced between $9 and $13.50. Reflecting the dishes of Puglia, Calabria, Campania, Basilicata and Sicily, pastas range from $14 to $16.50. Bringing considerable knowledge and an attractive cellar of both Italian and local wines to the operation is Oenotri’s ingratiating sommelier, Sur Lucero. The bustling staff is under the direction of genial general manager Lauren Duncan. At present, Oenotri is serving dinner only, between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, until 10 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. From end of service until at least midnight on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, there’s a late-night menu of salumi and pizza. The partners expect to add lunch service some time this summer. But first, they’ll add some four dozen seats to the 67 in the dining room when they add patio service in May. For reservations, call 252-1022. Oenotri is at 1425 First St., Napa.
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May BEGINNING May 20
Chef’s Market 2010 The summer farmers market and street fair takes place on Thursday nights, 5-9 p.m. It includes cooking demonstrations, food and wine tastings and live entertainment. It’s in downtown Napa on First Street between Main and Franklin streets.
May 14 The Uptown reopens The historic Uptown Theater in Napa reopens after its extensive renovations — and with a whole new style. Beginning with an opening show by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the movie house will host live music throughout the summer, with performers including Box Scags, Merle Hagard and Lyle Lovett. For a complete schedule and tickets, visit www.uptowntheatrenapa.com or Ticketmaster.
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The 54-voice Napa High School Chamber Choir, along with several smaller ensembles, present choral music composed over five centuries, in several different languages from around the world, including works performed during their special invitational performance appearance at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris earlier this spring, 3 p.m., $20.
The Napa Valley Education Foundation and the Noon Rotary Club host the 27th wine festival honoring the valley’s teachers, 4-8 p.m. Tickets are $35 in advance: $45 at the door. Call (707) 812-4777 for tickets.
Other Napa Valley Opera House performances in May include concerts with Jimmy Webb, and the Pacific Chamber Orchestra. See www.nvoh.org for details.
June June 3-6 Auction Napa Valley The granddaddy of all charity wine auctions, the Napa Valley vintner’s annual event marks its 30th year of raising millions of dollars for community non-profit organizations. Beginning Thursday night with lavish hospitality parties, Auction Napa Valley continues Friday with its day-long Taste Napa Valley party, this year at Rubicon Estate winery. The main event takes place Saturday at Meadowood Napa Valley when 40 lots will go on the block for bidders. Hundreds of local volunteers sign on to help at this annual event. For information and tickets, visit www.napavalleyvintners.com
June 26 Calistoga Arts in the Park Entering its 13th year, this event highlights local artists and raises funds for children’s art programs. It takes place in Pioneer Park in Calistoga, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information, 942-2278.
June 26 ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Napa Regional Dance Company presents a full-length version of the ballet at the Napa Valley Opera House. Local artists will showcase theme-related work in the Opera House Cafe. Tickets are $20. Performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. The Opera House is at 1030 Main St., Napa. Box office 226-7372 or www.nvoh.org.
June 14 - 2 Napa Valley Pride Celebration The local celebration of Gay Pride Month begins Friday with the Napa Guerilla Gay Pride Kick-Off Social and Cocktail Party. On Saturday, the Come Out Celebrate! picnic is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Veterans Park, Main Street, Napa. An Evening of Wine and Dancing in follows. On Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. relax at the “Recovery Brunch” at Oxbow Public Market.
June 25-27 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” A cast of professional actors along with children from the Lincoln Theater Napa Valley Youth Performing Arts Program 2010, present a full-scale production of the Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice musical. Performances are at 8 p.m., June 25 and 26 and 3 p.m. June 27. For tickets call the box office at 944-1300 or visit www.lincolntheater.com.
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July
July 1-4 Napa County Fair & Silverado Parade Calistoga is the home of the old-fashioned Napa County Fair and with the ultimate small-town Independence Day parade. The parade is free and marches from downtown to the County Fairgrounds. Admission to the faire is $7 for adults and $3 for children ages 6-12. For information, call (707) 942-5111.
July 3-24 The Robert Mondavi Summer Music Festival
July 4 Martini Fourth of July celebration The Louis M. Martini family hosts festivities and fireworks at their 15th Fourth of July celebration 7 -10 p.m. Wine tasting, live music and activities for children in the winery gardenare followed by a Napa Valley barbecue dinner and fireworks Tickets are $110. Information, (866) 549-2582.
July 4 Napa Fourth of July Family fun at Veterans Park, the corner of Main and Third streets in Napa, begins at dusk and concludes with a fireworks show. The event is free. For more information, (707) 257-9529. 24
The annual outdoor concert series begins with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band concert followed by a fireworks display. The gates open at 5 p.m. and the concert starts at 7 p.m. Following concerts are The Court Yard Hounds, July 10; Ziggy Marley, July 16; Afro-Cuban All Stars, July 17 and Chris Botti, July 24. For tickets and information, (888) 769-5299.
July 25 A Cause for Paws The annual benefit for Napa Humane takes place at Silverado Resort in Napa, 1-5 p.m. and features food and wine tastings, live music, and auction items. The mobile adoption unit will be on hand. Tickets are $45 in advance, $60 the day of the event. Information, (707) 255-8118, ext. 204.
July 16-25 Festival del Sole Napa Valley’s Festival del Sole returns for its fifth anniversary season, with a schedule is packed with classical music as well as tango and jazz, gourmet meals, free family-friendly concerts, wellness programs, art exhibitions, wine tastings, after-parties and a first-ever croquet match between artists and vintners. Concert tickets may be purchases on line at www.fdsnapa.org or by calling 888-FDS-NAPA [888-337-6272]. Tickets are available at the Napa Valley Opera House and Lincoln Theater box offices, the Robert Mondavi Winery and Castello di Amorosa gift shops. Prices start at $35. The Bouchaine Young Artist Series is free. For information on festival packages visit, contact fdsconcierge@gmail.com.
July 31 Festa Italiana at V. Sattui Celebrate V. Sattui’s Italian heritage with an outdoor feast straight from the villages of Toscana and Lombardia. The picnic grove is transformed into a traditional Italian summer festival with the live music, dancing, food and wine. 1111 White Lane, St. Helena, 6:30- 9:30 p.m. Information: (800) 799.2337. 25
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Here they come, ladies and gentleman, rounding
the corner from Trefethen in Napa and coming up Highway 29 into Yountville. Looks like it’s four wineries they visited so far … FOUR wineries. No, no.. ladies and gentlemen, it’s FIVE, five wineries so far, and INCREDIBLE, its only 11 a.m. This IS a fine day for the wine races. If you remember your first visit to Napa Valley wineries, you know what I am talking about — the eight-hour marathon at a pace that would make our Nascar neighbors proud. When we are sitting back home thinking of our upcoming vacation, we idealize about slow, leisurely days, sipping fine wine on terraces with our faces upturned towards the sun. But then we step foot in the valley and start fiendishly visiting as many wineries as humanly possible in the span of a day. I know, I know. They are all right here. And, well, once back home again, where’s the glory in retelling a story about leisurely sipping wines? Where’s the badge of honor there? So you start out the gate at 9 or 10 a.m. and whiz into each winery, simultaneously gulping your juice and waving good-bye, repeated 10 times, only find the afternoon’s dwindling — whence you start desperately scouring through your guide book, searching for the wineries that stay open past 5 p.m. Most second time visitors don’t repeat this offense. You stop and smell the roses, enjoy a cellar tour or two, take in the scenery, get to know the people at the wineries, and actually remember the names of the wines you tasted. How about that. For your next Napa Valley winery tour, here are some tried and true places to make you stop and enjoy all that is Napa Valley:
DOMAINE CHANDON
Domaine Cahndon is magical. Once you leave the
parking lot and walk toward the winery, flowers and greenery surround you. A little footbridge takes you toward the front doors. Take a minute to look around and you’ll spy stone toadstools and other intrigues along the way. On a beautiful day, the tasting room’s floor-toceiling window behind the bar is opened and you look out onto a scenic landscape, feel the breeze. You can sit inside or out with your tasting choice. - cont’d on next page
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V. Sattui
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Sattui in St. Helena is the perfect place for thirst and hunger. While Sattui’s strength used to be more in their storybook property and overflowing deli selections, a quiet revolution has taken place
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there. Winemaker Brooks Painter is crafting award-winning wines that winemakers around the valley are talking about. Their pinot noir and zinfandel, among others, are delicious, world-class wines. Grab a Sattui wine, try not to take hours with your deli selections (good luck with that), and grab a picnic table for one of the best lunches in town. You can take a self-guided tour (no fee) through the winery, cellar and museum. It’s open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily (until 5 in the winter). It costs $5 to taste six wines, but go for the $10 premium tasting of six wines and see the great wines the winery has been producing lately. Info, www.vsattui.com, 963-7774.
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The tastings run from $18 and the entire experience is worth it. One favorite, the Prestige Cuvée tasting, lets you taste a number of their fabulous sparkling wines including their Étoile rosé sparkling. While the fee for this particular tasting is $25, you are treated to three different bubblies, staff who can explain how the different sparkling wines are made, the calm that comes with the scenery and a special take-away Champagne flute. It seems as if time stands still at Chandon. You will want to stay for hours. Domaine Chandon in Yountville is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info, (888) 242-6366; www.chandon.com. You can’t not stop at the Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville. This is one of the places where Napa Valley tourism began. Its founder, Robert Mondavi, tirelessly espoused the virtues of Napa Valley wines around the world at a time when Napa was not yet famous. Although the family no longer owns the winery, entering it is awe-inspiring if you know about Mondavi’s contribution to the valley. For a real treat, take the Discovery Tour. This is a 30-minute walking tour (kids are welcome) where you look at and discuss the historic To Kalon vineyard, tour the To Kalon winery filled with oak casks, and taste two signature wines, all for $15. This particular tour is available on a walk-in basis (no reservations necessary) at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily (sometimes more frequently, so just ask) www.robertmondavi.com.
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Napa chefs share their top spots By LOUISA HUFSTADER Inside Napa Valley Correspondent
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op professional chefs can have pretty much any ingredients they want, no matter how precious or rare: fennel pollen, truffle salt, heirloom beans and more are all at their disposal. Home chefs can cook with these highend ingredients, too, of course; though in many communities without well-stocked gourmet shops, mail-order is the only way to obtain them. Luckiest of all are the Napa Valley cooks: Whether professionals or ardent amateurs, they can choose year-round from a cornucopia of fresh, artisanally produced foodstuffs that are available practically at their kitchen doorsteps. “I am so spoiled,” said chef, nutritionist and caterer Karen Schuppert, who shops daily at the Oxbow Public Market at 610 First St., Napa. “We are so lucky to have that in our neighborhood,” Schuppert said. She visits the Fatted Calf charcuterie daily, not only for the meat products but also for pastas and locally produced olive oil. The Fatted Calf is on McKinstry Street, around the corner from the Oxbow Public Market. “You can take your bottle and refill it with your olive oil, which is a great, green way to go about saving glass,” Schuppert said. Schuppert buys spices and blends at Whole Spice inside the market’s main hall. She loves the well-balanced blends
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concocted by owners Shuli and Ronit Madmone, particularly their version of ras el hanout, a fragrant Moroccan mixture of more than a dozen separate spices. For Mexican ingredients, Schuppert favors El Mercado Economico, on Imola Avenue east, across from Napa State Hospital. “They are so nice and so helpful, and they have everything” including a fullservice butcher, Schuppert says. “I also love them for their great deals on tomatillos and limes and all the ingredients for making wonderful salsas — and margaritas,” she adds with a smile. For organic produce and baking supplies, Schuppert likes to shop at the Golden Carrot, 1621 Imola Ave., South, a locally owned health food store she says has “without a doubt the best prices in town … (there’s) a lot of good stuff packed into that little space.” Schuppert’s favorite kitchenware store is the long-established Shackford’s at 1350 Main St., in downtown Napa. “I marvel that he’s still going at 90 years old,” she says of proprietor John Shackford, who has worked the shop with his wife, Donna, since they bought it in 1975. “He’s got three generations working there, and if they don’t have something they’ll definitely order it for you.” Schuppert is also a staunch fan of the Rancho Gordo shop at 1924 Yajome St., Napa, where owner Steve Sando sells
heirloom dried beans with names like Yellow Eye, Good Mother Stallard and Jacob’s Cattle. She extols the beans — which Sando brings to market within a year of harvest — as both tasty and healthful. “They’re also great for fiber, and they have lots of nutrients that help diabetics: They keep your blood sugar regulated,” explains Schuppert, who always has cooked beans on hand to add to recipes. Because beans also pack a lot of protein into a low-cost meal, she adds, “there’s just nothing better” for vegetarians. But Schuppert also shops at Rancho Gordo for Sando’s other goods, including clay cooking pots and unusual ingredients like chia seeds, which she praises as “even more remarkable than flax as far as their omega-three benefits — they’re super, super-high in fiber, you don’t have to grind them and they’re shelf-stable. “I sprinkle them on everything from salads to bean dishes to baked goods,” says Schuppert, who has posted several recipes using chia seeds on her blog, www. cook4seasons.com. Sando, himself a cookbook author as well as an advocate of new-world flavors, also has some favorite Napa stops he makes each week: “Mi Favorita on California Way because they have really good chorizo; they have cotija cheese imported from Mexico, which is incredible; they have nopales (cactus paddles) and milperos, tomatillos that are
small and purple. They’re actually sweet: You can almost eat them raw.” The address is 3385 California Way. Sando continues “They have an excellent butcher, they have room to park and the staff is great.” But Sando’s favorite meat purveyor, like Schuppert’s, is Fatted Calf. “They have great Spanish sausage, and their duck confit is fabulous. Without even blinking you can have a salad, duck confit and potatoes,” he says. And like Schuppert, he’s a fan of the spices and blends at Whole Spice — especially the Madmones’ dry harissa blend, which he mixes with olive oil and fresh garlic to make a paste he calls “just incredible” by comparison with commercial bottled harissa. Longtime Napan Lynn Campagna, a dedicated home chef and retailer whose well-stocked Napa Valley Kitchen Gallery on Lincoln Avenue celebrates its first anniversary this summer, is also a loyal partisan of the Oxbow Public Market. Kanaloa Seafood, she says, has “the freshest fish, literally, hands-down.” And, she adds, “the staff is knowledgeable, and I like being educated.” Campagna also shops at the market’s Whole Spice, Oxbow Produce and the Olive Press, which carries many different types of olive oil. All three foodies are regulars at the Napa Farmers Market, which runs Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the parking lot just east of the Oxbow Public Market main hall. Campagna has one more recommendation a few miles north on the same road: “The strawberry farm next to Silverado Vet,” she says, “has the best berries around.” The seasonal strawberry stand is on Silverado Trail, just off Trancas Street. One last foodie tradition in Napa is the Thursday night chefs’ market, which runs May 20 through Aug. 5, 5 to 9 p.m., on First Street in downtown Napa. The event is free, family oriented and open to the public. Renowned chefs, who just happen to be Napa locals, present two nightly cooking demonstrations, at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. After the demonstration, enjoy a sample of the food, paired with a taste of wine, both free of charge. For more information about the Chefs Market, call 257-0322 or visit www. napadowntown.com. 31
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xbow Public Market is proving to be a treasure trove for local chefs and cooks — but how is it for dayto-day shopping? With picnic basket in hand, we set out to shop for a casual picnic for two, to see what we could find and how much it would cost. First stop: Model Bakery. Both the bakery and the nearby Fatted Calf, while part of the market, have storefront shops on McKinstry Street. Model Bakery, a spin-off of the St. Helena original, has become the bread baking facility for both bakeries, and so it’s the place to pick up fresh baguettes and other loaves of artisan bread, along with cookies, cakes and pastries. The early-morning bake of baguettes sells out
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quickly; the afternoon bake is usually out by 3 p.m. Among the choices they bake a large pain levain with a wine grape starter, and will happily cut a chunk of it for a customer. A quarter of the large bread is $2.25 and sufficient for two people. The bakery will also make sandwiches to go, including panini. We opted for a fresh baguette, $3. Next stop: The Fatted Calf, next door. This tiny shop sells charcuterie, pâtés, salami, prosciutti, confits and a large selection of fresh sausage, along with other artisan products. It’s a frequent stop for picnickers, according to Annellane Vandendriesshe. “We usually recommend two to three different things.” We chose an eighth of a pound of Umbrian sausage ($2.75), and another
of Spanish chorizo ($3). Going wild, we decided to splurge another dollar on a carton of tiny pickles, cornichons, bringing our tab to a grand total of $6.75. Another option for a picnic, however, is to get to the shop early enough to nab one of the house-made sandwiches. They make a limited amount each day of utterly delectable sandwiches, like roast pork with aioli and grilled onions, and they sell out quickly at $7.50 each for a generous portion that could easily feed two. From here, we headed toward the main hall of the Oxbow Market, stopping first at the Oxbow Cheese Merchant. Like the Fatted Calf, this shop offers the variety and quality of selections you could expect to find in the most sophisticated city — and here it is in Napa. The staff is extremely knowledgeable and happy to provide samples to help you make your choices. And if you’re stumped or overwhelmed, their recommendations, I have found, are always terrific. Once when I had friends from France arriving, I flew into the shop, threw myself on their mercy, walked out with three cheeses, and, yes, even these picky French visitors were impressed. For our picnic, the helpful Ricardo
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Huijon came up with three suggestions of cheese, for a total of $14. “Especially with cheese,” he said, “remember you can enjoy it in small amounts.” A quarter of a pound for one or two is more than adequate; and they’ll cut small amounts to order so you can pack a bit of variety, a soft and a hard cheese, a Petaluma, and a Spanish, for example, all in one picnic. The Cheese Merchant is located in the same space as the Oxbow Wine Merchant and Wine Bar, which as of this writing is in a separate space just across from the entrance to the main hall. (They are scheduled to move to a space in the main hall this summer). The selection here too is international and wideranging in price. Rosé is my own wine of choice for picnics, so we picked up a JRE rosé of cabernet for $18. Inside the main hall, choices abound for special picnics and barbecues: completely scrumptious ice cream from Three Twins, first-rate meats Five Dot Ranch (from happy, free-range cows who graze in eastern Napa, I’m told), and fish and shellfish from Kanaloa Seafood Market. Happy, however, with our bread and cheese and salumi, we were just looking for a few extra touches. We stopped, therefore, at Whole Spice, which has to be one of the most fascinating places in Napa. It’s got every herb and spice you can imagine, all super fresh, plus chilies and salts. Another huge plus is that they sell in small amounts. At the recommendation of Micah Llamac, working in the shop, we bought an ounce of fleur de sel pimenton, ($2). Sprinkle a dab on bread and see what happens. Around the corner from Whole Spice is the Olive Press, where you can bring in your own bottle and fill it with fresh olive oil for a dollar an ounce. They also have flavored oils; unlike some, where a flavoring is added to mask an inferior oil, this is premium product, with a touch of lemon or orange, for fun. We spent $1 on oil to drizzle on our bread, and bought a container of mixed olives for $4.75. At the south end of the market is Oxbow Produce and Grocery. The store stocks only locally grown, organic and seasonal produce from small farms in the area. We were shopping in April, when the wonderful fruits of spring were just beginning to arrive. We opted for a basket of strawberries, $3.99. And to round out a picnic, a sweet finish was in order. If you did not succumb to cookies from Model Bakery, there are two other tempting options. Anette’s Chocolates sells truffles, brittles, creams and chocolate pieces all made in the downtown Napa factory, while Kara’s Cupcakes bakes fresh batches of regular and mini-sized cupcakes throughout the day. With such a decision to make, we opted for both. We bought two of Anette’s incomparable truffles (raspberry- and lemon-filled) for $2.05; and two mini cupcakes for $4. There it was a picnic, including wine, waiting to be savored. We spent a grand total of $69.54. But half the fun of this picnic was shopping for it. And one last suggestion — where to go to picnic. Just across the river from the public market is the new Oxbow Preserve, a quiet and as yet, largely undiscovered new park in Napa. To reach it, take First Street to Silverado Trail, turn left and look for blue road sign and a brown sign for the preserve on the left side of the road, coming up quickly. The turn is onto what looks like a private lane, but it will bring you to the park. The Oxbow Public Market is at 644 First St., Napa. Its website is www.oxbowpublicmarket.com.
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Located in the heart of Napa Valley at the Oxbow Public Market on a namesake bend of the serene Napa River, The Oxbow Wine Merchant & Wine Bar is the perfect place to relax and taste some of the most interesting wines from all over the world. Open Sun-Mon until 8 p.m., Tue-Thur until 9 p.m., and Fri-Sat until 10 p.m. Wine Bar fare also available.
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ts famous vineyards, wineries and food purveyors may be the Napa Valley’s crown jewels, but the setting in which they gleam — the natural landscape of the valley and its surrounding steep hills and canyons — is every bit as precious. Yet Napa has never been considered much of a destination for the outdoorsy: Apart from a handful of well-visited spots — Kennedy, Westview and Skyline parks; the state park in Calistoga — too much of its alluring landscape has been inaccessible, or simply unknown, to the public.
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1) The route of the new trail in American Canyon that leads out to the Napa River before the trail was constructed. 2) Oat Hill Mine Trail 3) Moore Creek watershed, just north of Lake Hennessey, location of new District park with several trails, to be opened this fall or next spring. 4) Start of the River to Ridge Trail, connecting Kennedy Park with Skyline Wilderness Park. The animal silhouettes were installed as part of an Eagle Scout candidate project, to make the initial chain link fence experience more interesting (and educational by showing the animals one can see at Skyline park) 5) Napa River Ecological Reserve, one of the last remaining Napa River oak woodlands.
That’s starting to change, as the votercreated Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District works to create new parks and trails, as well as to improve and publicize existing ones. “There are opportunities in Napa County that most people don’t even know about,” says Myrna Abramowicz, one of five elected directors of the special district created by voters in 2006. Access to the county’s wild places is “coming to the forefront, because of the parks and open space district,” Abramowicz said. For example, for decades the rugged Oat Hill Mine Trail near Calistoga had been effectively closed due to lack of management. That didn’t
stop those in the know from hiking, biking and riding horses there, but many more people should be able to enjoy the trail now that the open space district has begun maintaining it. You can either go up the Calistoga side or the Pope Valley side for a strenuous climb rewarded by sweeping valley views, Abramowicz says. The Oat Hill Mine Trail also links to public open space areas that are part of Robert Louis Stevenson State Park and State School Lands, as well as the newly acquired Wild Lake Ranch and Duff properties owned by the Land Trust of Napa County. Among the dozens of other projects on the district’s master plan are - cont’d on next page
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several more in the northeastern part of the county, from the shores of Lake Berryessa to the mountainous Blue Ridge that rises along the Yolo County border. But as Abramowicz was elected to represent Ward 5, the southern part of the county — the open space district’s five wards mirror Napa’s supervisorial areas — she’s most excited about the new developments in Napa and American Canyon. This June, for instance, the American Canyon shoreline will take its place along the San Francisco Bay Trail, helping to close one of the many gaps in the proposed 500-mile route around the bay and its wetlands. More than 10 years since the Bay Trail began, nearly 300 miles have been completed. But the American Canyon segment, along Wetlands Edge Road to Eucalyptus, marks its debut in Napa County. “We’ll have a special celebration for that,” promises Abramowicz, a transplanted Eastern urbanite who embraces the open-space cause with the zeal of a convert. “I come from New York City originally, so, to me, Napa was like Eden,” she says. One of Abramowicz’s favorite spots is Skyline Wilderness Park, just southeast of the city of Napa. She still marvels at the fact that a hike up to Lake Marie is just minutes from her home. “It’s the first place I ever saw wild turkeys,” she recalls. “I was just overwhelmed … It’s just so magical, and if you get up high enough you have this view. You can’t buy that.” Nor, apparently, can you buy Skyline Wilderness Park, which the county has been trying for years to purchase from the state of California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger twice has vetoed legislation that would allow the sale to take place. “You’d have to ask him why,” says a frustrated Abramowicz. “The county is keeping money in reserve every year ... with luck, the third time will be the winner.” Until then, the state continues to lease the parkland to the county, which subleases it to the Skyline Park Citizens Association. The association maintains the land, which includes a disc-golf course, trails for hiking and biking and a lovingly-tended native plant garden,
and charges fees to non-members for parking and RV camping, www.SkylinePark.org. Adventurous hikers who like to plan ahead should look into some of the regional outings sponsored by the Land Trust of Napa County, which has purchased some of the wildest and most scenic swathes of landscape in the area. Land Trust properties aren’t public parks, but the nonprofit agency offers regular hikes with guides. If you’re a Napa Valley resident or a regular visitor, consider a membership. Visit www. NapaLandTrust.org for details. Back in town, Yountville is taking a small step toward the eventual completion of an ambitious, county-spanning north-south bike path project known as the Vine Trail. Work began in March to construct the $1.3 million Highway 29 Bike Path Project, paid for by a federal stimulus grant. Scheduled to open in July, it’s just about 4,000 feet of pavement, running along the east side of Highway 29 from California Drive to Madison Street. That may not seem like a lot, but it provides more than a muchneeded link for cyclists: Pedestrians will also find it an attractive alternative to Yountville’s busy sidewalks and streets. Keep up with the Vine Trail’s progress at VineTrail.org, and learn more about the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District’s trails and parks at www.NapaOutdoors.org.
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Inside Napa Valley Correspondent Louisa Hufstader is the editor of “Native Grandeur: Preserving California’s Vanishing Landscapes,” a book published in 2000 by the Nature Conservancy of California.
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or lovers of both art and nature, di Rosa, located on 217 acres in the Carneros region, offers spring nature hikes in May and June. Di Rosa is home to an extensive collection of Northern California art, some of which is housed in galleries with other works installed throughout the grounds. Experienced guides lead hikes to the top of Milliken Peak at di Rosa, the highest summit in the Carneros region of Napa Valley with views of the North Bay, including vistas of the Napa River and San Pablo Bay. Art and vista hikes on May 1 and June 5 will explore di Rosa’s outdoor sculpture collection as well as native flora and fauna. Nature and vista hikes May 8 and June 12 provide information on native flora and fauna. The hikes are moderately strenuous; children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. The hikes are free for members, and $15 for non-members. Reservations are required. Call 226-5991, ext. 25 or visit the di Rosa website at www.dirosaart.org for details on tours, educational programs, and other visitor information.
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1359 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515
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1401 First Street Napa, CA 94559
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1245 Spring Street St. Helena, CA 94574
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376 Soscol Avenue Napa, CA 94558
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1408 Clay Street Napa, CA 94559
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221 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
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644 First Street, Bldg B Napa, CA 94559
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3383 Solano Avenue Napa, CA 94558
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520 Main Street Napa, CA 94559
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1339 Pearl Street, Ste. 104 Napa, CA 94559
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1851 Old Sonoma Road Napa, CA 94558
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7787 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
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1214 Main Street Napa, CA 94559
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610 First Street Napa, CA 94559
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601 Jefferson Street Napa, CA 94558
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610 First Street Napa, CA 94559
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1473 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515
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6480 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
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1222 Trancas Street Napa, CA 94558
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4175 Solano Avenue Napa, CA 94558
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1149 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
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1010 Lincoln Avenue Napa, CA 94558
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1050 Charter Oak Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
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4084 Byway East Napa, CA 94558
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999 Trancas Street Napa, CA 94558
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1026 First Street Napa, CA 94559
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4600 Mt. Home Ranch Rd Calistoga, CA 94515
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1040 Clinton Street Napa, CA 94559
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1449 Imola Avenue W. Napa, CA 94559
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3020 St. Helena Hwy N. Ste. A St. Helena, CA 94574
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6498 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
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1354 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515
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1106 First Street Napa, CA 94559
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Revisiting Revisiting By KIP DAVIS Inside Napa Valley Correspondent
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he voices of vineyard workers caught my attention as I sipped coffee on the deck outside of my room at the inn. It was a crisp, late-winter morning, the sun had just cleared the hills to the east and pruning was in full swing at a cabernet vineyard a halfmile away. Birds were bustling, the air smelled of country living and it seemed like little had changed since I first visited in this part of Napa Valley 35 years ago. Of course quite a bit has changed in the area surrounding St. Helena since the 1970s. More wineries, more vineyards, more restaurants and places to stay … more everything! The sleepy downtown of 30 years ago is now a bustling, high-end retail area with something for everyone. Inns and B&Bs, somewhat rare in the ’70s, are scattered throughout the town and surrounding vineyards. Having just returned to live in the wine country after three decades, I decided to spend a weekend in and around St. Helena discovering what’s new and, after all of these years, what had stayed the same. The sounds of jovial vineyard workers and country-fresh air that morning were all part of the area’s Upvalley charm, both past and present. I was staying just north of town at the Wine Country Inn, nestled in the vineyards off Lodi Lane. Like many of the lodging alternatives in the area, this quiet inn offers a blend of rural charm and full-service comfort, treating guests to a full breakfast, spa treatments, afternoon wine tasting and a complimentary restaurant shuttle service. Although I was tempted to stick around for some pampering, I hopped in the car and set out to see what else the area had to offer.
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New Generation of Wineries
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n the mood for some higher-elevation cabernet, I headed east and snaked up Howell Mountain Road to Cade Winery, perched high over the valley floor with a breathtaking view. Part of the same company that owns PlumpJack Winery in Oakville, Cade represents a new generation of winery with sleek, modern architecture that somehow blends seamlessly with the forest hillside location. This state-of-the-art winery is LEED certified, which is the short way of saying that the design and construction meet strict Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. The winemaking facility and cellars are built into the mountain to maximize energy efficiency and minimize environmental and aesthetic impact on the surrounding forest location. The winery and adjacent tasting room buildings are a contemporary, environmentally responsible fusion of sustainable wood, concrete, glass and steel designed by St. Helena architect Juan Carlos Fernandez. The facility also includes 15,000 square feet of aging caves directly behind the fermentation room. The Cade tasting room is open daily by appointment only and features toprated Howell Mountain cabernet vintages and other Cade wines. Tasting or not, the outstanding view and unique architecture are worth a stop.
Old & New in St. Helena
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ack in St. Helena, I parked just off Main Street that was bustling with traffic — both auto and pedestrian. This charming stretch of Highway 29 is truly a blend of old and new. All Main Street buildings between Spring and Adams streets are registered National Historic Landmarks comprising a national Historic Business District. New high-end retail shops selling fashion, furnishings and food are mingled with longtime St. Helena standbys like Steves Hardware, a refreshing alternative to today’s big-box home improvement emporiums. Visitors and locals rub elbows at breakfast favorite Gillwoods Café and at Model Bakery, which offers great breads, pastries and desserts. With food on my mind, I drove just north of downtown past the stately Rhine House at the Beringer winery to another historic Hwy. 29 landmark, Greystone. This majestic building was once part of Christian Brothers Winery. In 1995, Greystone became the Napa
Valley campus of the Culinary Institute of America, the elite training ground for chefs and culinary entrepreneurs. The CIA is a foodie must-see with its modern kitchenlike classrooms, extensive cooking-related gift shop and historic displays. Hundreds of students clad in chef coats hustle from class to class carrying knife cases instead of books. The main teaching kitchen is 15,000 square feet of stainless steel and stone — a typical commercial kitchen times 10. I took advantage of the “Taste Like a Chef: Calibrate Your Palate” demonstration at the CIA Flavor Bar adjacent to the Spice Islands Marketplace gift shop. This brief program helps tasters learn to identify the four main food flavors (salty, sweet, sour and bitter) and how these combine to make things taste good or bad or really bad. An illuminating half-hour demonstration, “Taste Like a Chef” starts on the hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs $10 per person. Similar demonstrations are offered for chocolate and olive oil. CIA visitors can also check out the students’ work at the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at the north end of the historic building. The stylish restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily.
The Still on the Hill
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ow that my taste buds were properly calibrated, I tooled up Spring Mountain road for a real change of pace. This was pretty much Mayacamas mountain wilderness back in the 1970s when I came to explore the creek and forests. Now the region is peppered with vineyards and wineries comprising the Spring Mountain AVA. My destination, however, sounded like it should be located in the hills of Tennessee — the “still on the hill.” That’s the nickname given Charbay Winery and Distillery, producers of fine wines, aperitifs and spirits in an idyllic setting near the top of Spring Mountain. Charbay was started in 1983 by Miles and Susan Karakesevic. Serbian-born Miles is a 12th-generation master distiller, the product of a 250-year family heritage of winemaking and distilling. Karakesevic’s son Marko carries on the tradition, having just become the family’s 13th generation master distiller. Using an authentic copper Alambic pot still crafted in Cognac, France, the Karakesevics produce a wide variety of aperitifs, brandy, whisky and other high-end spirits. Most recently, the family introduced its line of Charbay flavored vodkas made at its facility in Ukiah.
The ride up Spring Mountain road is rewarded with a comfortable, hilltop tasting room surrounded by forest and vineyard. Miles or Marko enjoys educating and entertaining visitors, explaining the intricacies of Alambic distillation and the “Charbay difference.” Thankfully, considering the winding road home, vodka and distilled spirits are not on the Charbay tasting menu. The tasting selection of Charbay wines, port and aperitifs, however, is an enjoyable alternative to the wine-only tasting rooms in the valley below. Having never paid much attention to aperitifs before, I was so impressed by the taste and versatility of Charbay’s Pomegranate and Green Tea aperitifs I bought a bottle of each on the way out.
Back to the Ranch
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ack on the valley floor, a growling in my midsection turned my attention to dinner. The use of high-quality, locally sourced ingredients, many agree, is a common thread in the creation of fine wine and food. Responsible and sustainable production of these ingredients is also central to the overall experience. Bringing all these elements together is St. Helena-based Long Meadow Ranch, an extensive family-owned enterprise that produces fine wine, produce, meats and olive oil on a 650-acre hillside ranch west of St. Helena. LMR owners Ted and Laddie Hall, with their son Christopher, share the vision of food and wine production using sustainable, organic methods. This ambitious philosophy has earned the family enterprise quite a following from consumers and chefs in Napa Valley and beyond. The latest LMR project is the Long Meadow Ranch Winery and Farmstead complex in downtown St. Helena. The Farmstead includes a wine and olive oil tasting room in a charming, restored farmhouse. In addition to tasting Long Meadow Ranch wines and olive oils, visitors are invited to join in a “full circle farming tour” that showcases LMR’s farming philosophy, organic gardens and vineyard. The farm-to-table experience is expanded with a visit to the Farmstead Restaurant next door to the tasting room. Here, chef Sheamus Feeley offers “ingredient-driven American farmhouse cooking” that highlights local, sustainable and organic ingredients including LMR’s all-natural grass-fed beef. Ted Hall is passionate in his belief that - cont’d on next page
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sustainable and responsible production practices dramatically improve food and wine quality in terms of both taste and overall experience. Dining at Farmstead restaurant shortly after his enthusiastic presentation made me an enthusiastic believer, too. Back at the inn I savored a final glass of Napa Valley cabernet in the chilly air under a starlit sky. The sounds of the vineyard workers were replaced by excited children at a backyard birthday party at a farmhouse down the road. Yes, a lot had changed in Napa Valley since the ’70s but somehow, it seemed, not as much as in the rest of the world. The quiet beauty of the vineyards and open space was still all encompassing. New wineries were practicing and refining ageold techniques. And a new wave of growers and producers were embracing older, more responsible ways of doing things. For a visitor, St. Helena and the surrounding area is as much a delicious, sensual respite as it ever was. As a wine country resident, spending some time enjoying what the area has to offer truly reaffirms what we love about the Napa Valley. Cheers! Kip Davis worked as a reporter for the Napa Valley Register in the 1970s. After a subsequent career in public relations, he has returned to wine country.
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If you go...
Wine Country Inn 1153 Lodi Lane, St. Helena 888.465.4608 707.963.7077 www.winecountryinn.com
Cade Winery 360 Howell Mountain Road, Angwin 707.965.2746 www.cadewinery.com
CIA at Greystone 2555 Main St., St. Helena 707.967.1010 800.888.7850 www.ciachef.edu
Charbay Winery and Distillery 4001 Spring Mountain Road, St. Helena 707.963.9327 www.charbay.com
Long Meadow Ranch Winery & Farmstead 738 Main St., St. Helena 707.963.4555 www.longmeadowranch.com
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Grove A business venture between two friends takes off By SASHA PAULSEN Inside Napa Valley Editor
The distinctive bottle used by Grove 45 olive oil keeps sunlight out, giving the oil a rich, green color.
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his year Bonnie Storm and Nena Talcott qualified for Social Secury and Medicare. It’s also the year the long-time friends launched a business venture, which has taken off with a roar of success that has astonished the two farming women. Their Grove 45 Extra Virgin Olive Oil, named for the year in which they were both born, sold out within weeks. And, Talcott noted, “We haven’t had to sell it to our friends.” The story of Grove 45 olive oil begins with the friendship of the two women who met on a tennis court — “Nena knocked me down,” Storm recalled — in St. Helena almost two decades ago. Storm, a native of Sonoma, had moved over the hill, when she and her husband purchased the historic Storm Ranch in Chiles Valley — a place whose lively anecdotes include tales that the Symbionese Liberation Army, notorious for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, had used the place as a hide-out in the 1970s. Storm was interested in olives and imported a shipment of bare root trees from Italy, which she planted on the ranch and began to grow organically. She produced an olive oil that, by 1997, she was selling commercially, and which won the first gold medal awarded to a California olive oil in Italy at the
Orchiolo d’Oro. Talcott and her husband had moved to the Napa Valley in 1974 “to have a good life for our kids.” She planted her first vineyard in 1975 and by the mid-’80s she was growing more than 60 acres of premium grapes for wineries in the valley. After their meeting on the tennis courts, Talcott became interested in olives, and in 1996 Storm shared 500 cuttings from her greenhouse. Talcott tended them in pots at her home until they were ready to go in the ground, and then she planted them around her vineyard. Soon, she too was making olive oil and selling locally. Tra Vigne restaurant in St. Helena was one of her clients. Then came a series of life-changing events. Both women were diagnosed with cancer. Both went through divorces. “By 2005, my vineyards were in escarow and I moved into St. Helena,” Talcott said. “I had no more farming. I decided I wanted to do something. In a conversation with Storm, now the owner of Storm Ranch as a result of her divorce, Talcott learned her friend was thinking of retiring from the olive oil business. “When Bonnie said she wanted to quit producing olive oil, I had an idea. I said, ‘Let’s try it together.’ Then I had a nightmare. What were we doing?” They decided to try producing 60 cases. Storm recalled, “ I said if we sell 60 cases it’s a miracle.” “And I said, if we can’t, there’s something wrong,” Talcot added. With their combined experience — more than 45 years of farming between them
Bonnie Storm, left, and Nena Talcott of Grove 45 olive oil harvest the olives from two separate groves at Storm Ranch in Chiles Valley.
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— they knew they could produce a good olive oil “but there are a lot of really good olive oils out there,” Talcott said. “We knew what we had to have is a stunning packaging.” While rows and rows of artisan olive oils now line grocers’ shelves, most are in glass containers. Their choice to package their olive oil in round, aluminum cans with pewter labels came from a decision to find a container that was “both beautiful and practical. “We knew that metal is the best container for olive oil,” Storm said. “It preserves olive oil from UV rays can swiftly deteriorate a fine olive oil.” This explains why dark green glass is more effective than clear for preserving olive oil, but metal’s even better. Their eyecatching bottle, however, would prove to be more than just the best choice for preserving quality. Its distinctive style was an eyecatcher; their product would stand out on a shelf filled with bottles. They harvested their olives last Nov. 23 and 24 and pressed them the same day. By Jan. 30 they were ready to bottle their product. The finished product is a blend of pendolino, maurino, leccinoio and frantoio varietals with 25 per nocellara de bellici. Then came the real test: selling it. Feb. 6 they delivered their first case to Sunshine market in St. Helena. Diane Defilipi, a local olive oil expert, tasted their product and promptly ordered a case. In late February, the two women set off on a marketing trip to Washington DC and New York City, setting up accounts with Zabar’s and Murray’s Cheese. Back in California, Draeger’s Market
and like to travel. When we have a good day, we stop and have a martini. We both like to laugh a lot and find humor in our own lives.” While they credit much of their success from their product and the fact that they are the ones selling it. Whether talking to retailers or pouring samples at demonstrations, “We tell people ‘we are Grove 45; it’s us,” Talcott said. Factor into this age and experience. “No one has been unkind or closed a door but even if they had, at our age we don’t take it personally,” Storm said. “ It’s knowing yourself and not being intimidated.” “It’s one of the pleasures of arriving at this stage of life, to be comfortable in our skin,” Talcott added. Storm quipped, “What you see is what you get.” They’re now looking ahead to next year, when, to meet demand, they’ll be making more than 60 cases. For any women of a certain again, Talcott concluded with this advice, “Don’t slow down; don’t stop. Just keep reaching for something. Just keep reminding yourself find something that makes you happy to get up in the morning.”
in Menlo Park and Blackhawk wanted it. Oakville Grocery took five cases and in two weeks sold all but three cans. Next came the real shocker. They’d called on Dean and Delucca in New York. “By the time they got back to us we had to say, “We’re sold out.” Talcott said. “I was in shock.” Requests keep coming in. It’s like we came in the back door and went out the front,” Storm said. “It’s happened so fast. We misjudged how fast it would move.” Not only has their product gotten off to a flying start, but their friendship has grown too. Visitors of Calistoga's Old Faithful Geyser are calling it "utterly amazing". The Geyser is one of only three Old “Our friends were Faithfuls in the world, designated as such because of its concerned when we constant and predictable eruptions. This spectacle is a said what we were true rarity, and there's no better place to see it than going to do,” Talcott here! said. “They said, The Geyser is an all-natural phenomenon which tosses a scalding curtain of water anywhere from 20 to ‘you’re such good upwards of 75 feet into the air. Old Faithful eruption friends, but you’re so intervals change depending on season & rainfall. different.’” Intervals can range from 5-60 minutes, ensuring a “Nena likes minimal waiting period for an exciting and educational manicures,” Storm experience the whole family is sure to love. pointed out. Open 365 days a year at 9 a.m. Enjoy our geothermal “And Bonnie exhibit hall, video room, snack bar, gift shop, picnic is the farmer,” Nena area and self-guided geothermal tour. added. Mention OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER OF CALIFORNIA this ad for “But this has $1 off 1299 Tubbs Lane • Calistoga, CA 94574 been fun for both of regular admission (707) 942-6463 • www.oldfaithfulgeyser.com us,” Talcott said. “ We are good friends 51
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By L. PIERCE CARSON By Inside Napa Valley Writer
hile a worldwide video game empire requires lots of attention, Kenzo Tsujimoto makes ample time to enjoy Napa Valley wine. In fact, the Japanese businessman is so pleased with the quality of grapes grown on his Napa Valley estate that he decided to launch a wine brand. Tsujimoto believed local experts who told him his 4,000 acres on Mount George had the potential to make great wine. “I could have produced a good wine just for myself,” he noted. “But if I can have other people enjoy the wine, too, it’s much more pleasureable ... it brings me more joy.” Speaking through a translator, Tsujimoto was in the valley recently to talk about opening Kenzo Wine Estate to the public on Saturday — a place where guests can enjoy estate wines paired with the award-winning cuisine of Napa Valley’s celebrated chef, Thomas Keller. Opening just as warm weather beckons tourists from all over the world, Kenzo Estate includes a winery and hospitality center as well as 20,000 square feet of wine caves on property once known as Wild Horse Valley Ranch. Tsujimoto maintains living quarters and horse barns on the part of the estate accessed from Wild Horse Valley Road. The board-andbatten winery and tasting room, open to visitors daily, are located off Monticello Road, about a mile up a winding, tree-lined notch cut into the gentle slopes of Mount George. As chairman of Japan’s Capcom Group — which created and now markets video games like Street Fighter and Resident Evil — Tsujimoto is driven to produce the best possible products, whether he’s focusing on games or wine. To that end, he’s surrounded himself with the top talent in both endeavors. For his wine project, he brought on board Heidi Barrett (who crafted the cult wines of Screaming Eagle, among others) as consulting winemaker, and Hundred Acre alum Mark Nanes to assist with the winemaking effort. The vineyard manager is respected viticulturist David Abreu, while the winery facilities were designed by noted Bay Area architect Howard Backen. World-renowned chef Thomas Keller is responsible for all food pairings and noted industry winemaker Michael Terrien is estate general manager. “Yes, it takes a lot of effort,” the new Napa Valley vintner admitted. “But this is something
I like to do. I want people to enjoy the wine we produce ... I believe the wine we produce is good for you.” It wasn’t always so, Tsujimoto confided. When he purchased the estate in 1990, he had no idea he’d eventually be growing grapes. “I knew the ranch was famous as an equestrian center,” he said. “So I was thinking I would pursue a business with horses. But I found out that was difficult. There was a hunting club on the east side of the property and I didn’t want to continue with that. “I had been learning about the wines of the Napa Valley, how good they are, and (eventually) felt it would be better to pursue that. I knew we had enough water ... that we had natural high quality mineral water on the site. In fact, that’s what we put into the swimming pool.” Grapes were first planted on the estate in 1998, Tsujimoto advised. And in 2000, the first wine was made. “David Abreu tasted the wine and said we could do much better ... because the raw materials here are so good.” So, under Abreu’s direction, vineyard crews began extracting lots of rock so the vines could be planted in the deep, rich, well-drained soils. At this point in the conversation, the host suggests visitors taste the new wines just being released, as if to suggest they make up their own minds about wine quality. He smiles when he realizes he has a roomful of believers.
Kenzo Estate Protected by a perimeter of hills that make up the landscape surrounding Mount George, Kenzo Estate’s 70 acres of vines are planted on elevations that range from 1,400 to 1,550 feet. Another 30 acres will be planted this year, according to general manager Michael Terrien. The cooler climate allows for longer hang time for the fruit, he notes, giving grapes added maturity and flavor profiles. There’s a “no-nonsense approach to winemaking,” Terrien advises during a tour of the relatively new cellars. Fermentation takes place in a combination of stainless steel and concrete tanks, the latter designed to hold each of the five Bordeaux varietals as part of an experimental fermentation/blending program. The new cellars were broken in during the 2009 harvest. Finishing touches on the new hospitality center were completed just this week, in time
for Saturday’s estate opening. The 20,000 square feet of wine caves were constructed to accommodate two vintages of wine only a single barrel high. It’s an impressive operation, one that’s 1 obviously been put together by a perfectionist. Tsujimoto says he only wants to provide the best for consumers whether it’s wine or video games. Asked about the video business, he notes that about 45,000 titles are released every year. “Only 40 to 50 will be million sellers, and they account for more than half of all sales. It must be a good product to sell and that’s my focus. “Now I have a great commitment to wine. I feel this is one of the best places in the world to produce wine. “I’m 70 years old and I want to transfer my passions to future generations. Unfortunately, I won’t be around to enjoy my 50th vintage.”
Wines for two markets At first, Kenzo Tsujimoto shipped his wines only to the Japanese market. “Wine is becoming more popular in Japan,” he noted. Not all that long ago, Japanese consumers judged the quality of wine by its price, he added. “If it was expensive, then it must be good. But now, people in Japan are tasting the wine and judging wine by their own palates. It’s important for people to drink wine they enjoy, not just for prestige.” So, Kenzo Estate crafted a sauvignon blanc, Asatsuyu (“morning dew” in Japanese), for the Japanese market, a Bordeaux style white wine matched to delicate Japanese cuisine. It’s offered in 375 ml bottles which has proven to be a hit with couples dining on sushi, sashimi or other Japanese fish-based dishes. There are three red wines, all with names that one way or another reflect the color purple. Pride of the estate, Rindo accounts for the largest production, a blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc and petit verdot. Rindo is a Japanese bellflower, a small violet flower that blooms in the fall around harvest. The first release of Rindo, from the 2006 harvest, is available now, with 2007 Rindo set for release in early fall. It’s an intense, juicy mouthful of
blackberries with a delicious cassis finish, retailing for $75 — a relative bargain for a wine with such pedigree. Available in the states on a limited basis are Murasaki (which means purple), a proprietary blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc and petit verdot, and Ai (which means indigo), 100 percent cabernet sauvignon, a lush, velvety, ripe mouthful of dark plums with black fruit lingering on the palate. Both of these wines retail for $150. Kenzo Estate also produces a rosé that will be available only at the tasting room. Annual production at present is 5,000 cases. Kenzo Estate wines are available only in restaurants and at the winery. Eventually, some will be offered online. Tsujimoto personally visits restaurants before he offers his wines for their lists. His wines are on the lists of 120 restaurants in Japan (there are 100,000 restaurants in Tokyo alone). Allocation for most are 200 bottles per vintage, although one very small restaurant with eight seats sells about 400 bottles of Kenzo Estate wine each year.
2 Submitted photos 1) Manicured grapevines line the slopes of Mount George at Kenzo Estate Winery, a relatively new winegrowing operation opening its doors to the public Saturday. It is located on 4,000 acres formerly known as Wild Horse Valley Ranch, owned and operated since 1990 by video game entrepreneur Kenzo Tsujimoto. 2) The vines on Kenzo Estate are above the fog line on Mount George. It’s a new wine brand, with the majority of sales taking place in Japan and the United States.
The Kenzo experience Located at 3200 Monticello Road, Kenzo Estate is open by appointment only daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A tasting of four Kenzo wines with charcuterie is offered for $50 per person. However, for an additional $10 per person, Thomas Keller offers a wine paired lunch. Lunch and tastings will be conducted on a picturesque patio overlooking vines and valley. Inquiries and appointments can be made by calling 259-5408 or logging online at www. kenzoestate.com. 55
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The life of wine begins in the soil: Describing napa valley’s appellations Howell Mountain This elevated district gained its grapegrowing reputation in the 1870s and continued until Prohibition, then renewed its viticultural heritage in the 1960s. Spring Mountain District Viticulture was established here in the 1870s. Its soils are distinct even from the land to its north on Diamond Mountain. Its eastern exposure translates to cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers. Its temperature range is less than in St. Helena. St. Helena This AVA lies within a narrow portion of the upper Napa Valley. The resulting interaction of climatic factors affect grapes grown in this floor area. Within its boundaries from Bale Lane to the north and Zinfandel Lane to the south, there is a fairly uniform steep gradiant. Chiles Valley In the mid-1800s, the Mexican government gave a land grant to Joseph Ballinger Chiles. And that land lies within this AVA in which vineyard was one of its earliest agricultural operations. The soil, climate and elevation present a microclimate unique from the Napa Valley. Rutherford This area gained a world reputation for its “Rutherford Dust” which imparts earthy qualities to cabernet sauvignon. Oakville This mid-valley area is warmer than the area to its south but still enjoys cool evenings thanks to the valley’s proximity to the San Pablo Bay. Its soils flow from the Mayacamas to the west and the Vaca Range to
the east. They meet at the Napa River. The result: good drainage and gravelly soil. Cabernet sauvignon grows well here. Atlas Peak Elevated from 760 feet to 2,663 feet on the Vaca Range, it is described as “an elevated valley surrounded by volcanic mountains of relatively shallow relief.” Mt. Veeder One of the largest AVAs inside the Napa Valley appellation, this 15,000-acre area rises to 2,677 feet on the eastern slope of the Mayacamas mountains. It has a variety of soil types, all distinct from the valley floor as well as the Sonoma side of the mountain range. Yountville This AVA encompasses about 8,260 acres of which nearly 2,500 acres are planted to grapes. The AVA gained federal approval earlier this year at which time it held within its borders seven wineries and 43 growers.
*Refer to map on previous page Los Carneros Perhaps the coolest area in the Napa Valley, this land slopes to the San Pablo Bay, just three miles away. The rocky, clay loam creates a grape with intense flavors. The area is best known for its pinot noir. Boundaries of the Carneros AVA extend into Sonoma County. Wild Horse Valley Like Carneros, this AVA crosses county lines. It encompasses a valley 5.3 miles long and 1.67 miles at its widest. First planted in grapes in 1881, its climate is influenced by the bay and ocean winds. Napa Valley Boundary lines follow the Napa County lines except for the eastern portion near Lake Berryessa. The AVA includes the areas historically linked to Napa Valley wine growing tradition.
Stags Leap District This AVA contains 2,700 acres with only half of that planted to grapes, primarily cabernet sauvignon. It’s tucked into a three-mile by onemile area bordering the Silverado Trail and defined by the jagged outcroppings of the Vaca Range to the east, the Napa River to the west and south.
Diamond Mountain This district is located entirely in Napa County in the Mayacamas mountain range, east of Calistoga. It is comprised of 5,300 acres of which 464 acres are planted vineyards. Grape farming in this AVA began in 1863, and some of the world’s finest wines are produced here because of the uniqueness of soil and climate conditions.
Oak Knoll District Established in 2004, his appellation with 3,500 acres of vines is at a low elevation just north of the city of Napa. Cool, coastal breezes extend the growing season and offer what some consider the perfect balance of hot and cool climates. A wide variety of grapes are grown in this versatile area.
Calistoga Daytime summer temperatures peak above 100° (37°C) and fall to low 40s° (7°C) at night, due to cool marine air drawn into the Valley from the northwestern hills. Cool afternoon and evening breezes continue the process, and on clear nights are assisted by cold air sliding down the mountainsides to the Valley floor.
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Barbecue and Zinfandel are quite a pair come summer. Zinfandel’s rich fruit flavors are a good counter to the crispy grilled tastes of barbecued food, and the wine’s plentiful spices are a good complement to that same grilled flavor. Zinfandel has been called California’s native grape. While it is originally from Croatia, and not California, it has been the State’s darling grape on and off for a century now. It was the most planted varietal in Napa Valley until the late 1970s. It became wildly popular during the Gold Rush. Prohibition didn’t even stop the zinfandel grape—it was one of the main grapes used to make home-made “bath tub” wines in the 1920s and 30s. Zinfandel vines are some of the oldest grapevines found in California.There would have been much more old-vine zinfandel today had growers not started to yank the vines out in favor of cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay in the 1980s. Cab and chard had become the new “it” grapes of California, and people did not yet know about the incredible, intense zinfandels they would be missing out on by pulling up the old zinfandel vines. But, after all that yanking was said and done, zinfandel came around again as a favorite grape. Plantings have significantly increased in California once again. The only problem was that
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zinfandel came back with a vengeance. Many of the wines were huge monsters: over ripe, very high in alcohol, with huge, threatening fruit and spice. Time has a way of evening everything out though, and in the last five to ten years there has been a quiet evolution of zinfandel. Not all of the wines are as aggressive as they once were. There is less alcohol and the wines are more balanced. Zinfandel fans need not worry, however. There is still lots of that big, rich fruit and spice flavor but there is matching acidity and even elegance. These are wines you can actually serve with dinner. Whether you are having barbecue or not, below are a few great zinfandels to try with your next meal. Elyse Howell Mountain zinfandel is a rich, plumy wine. It will pair incredibly well with spicy ribs. Zinfandel is one of Howell Mountain’s specialties.The grapes come from the mountain’s acclaimed Black Sears Vineyard. It is an incredible place--its vineyards climb above the town of St. Helena and above the Napa Valley fog line in the Autumn. This gives the zinfandel a long, sunny growing period before harvest. The owner and winemaker of Elyse, Ray Coursen, is serious about his zin—it is the first wine he ever made.
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13 Appellations A Dozen Vintners Wine Tasting
4006 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
866.484.4783
Benessere
1010 Big Tree Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5853
3000 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.0666
Bennett Lane Winery
3340 Highway 128 Calistoga, CA 94515
877.MAX.NAPA
Acacia Vineyard Ackerman Family Vineyards Adams Ridge Winery Adastra Vineyards Aetna Springs Cellars
2750 Las Amigas Road Napa, CA 94559
707.226.9991
Beringer Vineyards
2000 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.4412
2101 Kirkland Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.226.6600
Black Stallion Winery
4089 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.253.1400
3181 Kingston Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.226.3185
1075 Buchli Station Road Napa, CA 94559
800.654.WINE
2545 Las Amigas Road Napa, CA 94559
707.255.4818
190 Camino Oruga, Suite 5 Napa, CA 94558
800.499.2366
7227 Pope Valley Road Pope Valley, CA 94574
707.965.2675
975 Deer Park Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5411
Ahnfeldt Wines Alatera Vineyards Allora Wines Alpha Omega Altamura Winery
P.O. Box 6078 St. Helena, CA 94574
707.965.2675
945 Deer Park Road St. Helena, CA 94574
800.514.4401
2170 Hoffman Lane Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.2620
4006 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.258.1454
3244 Ehlers Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.6071
3233 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2435
1155 Mee Lane Rutherford, CA 94574
707.963.9999
820 Greenfield Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2155
1700 Wooden Valley Road Napa, CA 94558
707.253.2000
Bouchaine Vineyards Bourassa Vineyards Bremer Family Winery Broman Cellars Brookdale Vineyards Brown Estate Buehler Vineyards Buffalo’s Shipping Post
2471 Solano Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.266.7942
Amezetta Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards
1099 Greenfield Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.1460
1108 Deer Park Road St. Helena, CA 94574
800.752.9463
680 Rossi Road St. Helena, CA 94574
800.946.3497
Burgess Cellars Cafaro Cellars Cain Vineyard & Winery Cakebread Cellars Calafia Cellars Caldwell Vineyard
2591 Pinot Way St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7181
3800 Langtry Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.1616
8300 St. Helena Hwy. Rutherford, CA 94573
800.588.0298
629 Fulton Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0114
169 Kruezer Lane Napa, CA 94559
707.255.1294
Andretti Winery 4162 Big Ranch Road Napa, CA 94558 707.261.1717 x227 www.andrettiwinery.com Arger-Martucci Vineyards 1455 Inglewood Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.4334
Artesa Winery Astrale e Terra Atalon August-Briggs Winery
1345 Henry Road Napa, CA 94559
707.224.1668 or 707.254.2140
5017 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.255.1134
3299 Bennett Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
800.224.4090
333 Silveraro Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.4912
Baldacci Family Vineyards Ballentine Vineyards Barlow Vineyards Barnett Vineyards Beaucanon Estate Beaulieu Vineyard Bell Wine Cellars
6236 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.9261
2820 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7919
4411 Silverado Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.8742
4070 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7075
1006 Monticello Road Napa, CA 94558
707.254.1460
1960 St. Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573
707.967.5230
6200 Washington St. Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.1673
Cardinale Estate Cartlidge & Brown Carver Sutro Casa Nuestra Winery & Vineyards
Calistoga Cellars 1371 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515 707.942.7422 www.calistogacellars.com 7600 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
800.588.0279
205 Jim Oswalt Way, Suite B American Canyon, Napa 94503
707.552.5199
3106 Palisades Road Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.1029
3451 Silverado Trail North St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5783
Castello di Amorosa 4045 N. St. Helena Hwy Calistoga, CA 94515 707.967.6272 www.castellodiamorosa.com Caymus Vineyards
8700 Conn Creek Road Rutherford, CA 94573
707.967.3010
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Ceja Vineyards
1016 Las Amigas Road Napa, CA 94559
707.255.3954
1240 Duhig Road Napa, CA 94559
707.257.0101
Chappellet Vineyard
1581 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7136
210 Camino Oruga Napa, CA 94581
707.226.1600
Charbay
4001 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.9327
Domaine Carneros by Taittinger Dominari Downing Family Drinkward Peschon Duckhorn Vineyards Dutch Henry Winery
Charles Krug Winery 2800 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574 Chateau Boswell 3468 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574 Chateau Montelena Winery 1429 Tubbs Lane Calistoga, CA 94515 5350 Silverado Trail Chimney Rock Winery Napa, CA 94558 1473 Yountville Crossroad Cliff Lede Vineyards Yountville, CA 94599 Clos Du Val 5330 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558 Clos Pegase Winery 1060 Dunaweal Lane Calistoga, CA 94515 Cloud View Vineyards 1677 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574 Conn Creek Winery 8711 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.2229
Continuum Constant Diamond Mountain Vineyards Corison Winery Cosentino Winery
6795 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.8100
2121 Diamond Mountain Rd Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.0707
987 St. Helena Hwy St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0826
7415 St. Helena Hwy Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.1220
Cuvaison Estate Wines
4550 Silverado Trail N. Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.6266
Cuvaison Estate Wines- Carneros D.R. Stephens Estate Darioush Winery David Arthur Vineyards Del Dotto Vineyards Delectus Winery Destino Wines Detert Family Vineyards Diamond Oaks
1221 Duhig Road Napa, CA 94599
707.255.7321
1860 Howell Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2908
4240 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.257.2345
1521 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5190
1455 St. Helena Hwy St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2134
908 Enterprise Way, #C Napa, CA 94558
707.255.1252
707.963.5472 707.942.5105 707.257.2641 x1 800.428.2259 707.261.5225 707.942.4981 707.963.2260 707.963.5133 x210
1325 Imola Ave W., PMB 500 800.862.1737 Napa, CA 94559 1746 Vineyard Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
877.817.0466
1595 Oakville Grade Oakville, CA 94562
707.948.3010
Domaine Chandon 1 Californina Drive Yountville, CA 94599 707.944.2280 www.chandon.com
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3212 Jefferson Street, PMB 189 707.237.3444 Napa, CA 94558 1547 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.6156
1000 Lodi Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
888.354.8885
4310 Silverado Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.5771
Eagle Eye Winery Eagle and Rose Estate Ehlers Estate Elan Vineyards Elke Vineyards
6595 Gordon Valley Road Napa, CA 94558
707.427.1600
1844 Pope Canyon Road Pope Valley, CA 94567
707.965.9463
3222 Ehlers Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5972
4500 Atlas Peak Road Napa, CA 94558
707.252.3339
2210 Third Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.246.7045
Elyse Wineries Esser Vineyards Etude Wines Failla Falcor Wine Cellars
2100 Hoffman Lane Napa, CA 94558
707.944.2900
4040 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.1300
1250 Cuttings Wharf Road Napa, CA 94558
707.257.5300
3530 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0530
2511 Napa Valley Corporate Dr.
707.255.6070
Napa, CA 94559
Fantesca Estate & Winery 2920 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.968.9229
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Far Niente Farella Vineyard Fleury Estate Winery Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards Folie a Deux Winery Folio Winemaker’s Studio
1350 Acacia Drive Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.2861
436 St. Helena Hwy, South St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3542
2222 Third Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.254.9489
3500 Highway 128 Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.4956
950 Galleron Road Rutherford, CA 94573
707.974.9951
3104 Redwood Road Napa, CA 94558
707.226.8320
677 S. St. Helena Hwy St. Helena, CA 94574
800.913.1118
4411 Redwood Road Napa, CA 94558
707.255.1144 x237
7481 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.2565
4038 Big Ranch Road Napa, CA 94558
707.257.7555
1285 Dealy Lane Napa, CA 94558
707.256.2757
6512 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
888.552.WINE
Forman Vineyards Franciscan Oakville Estates Frank Family Vineyards Frazier Winery Fre Wines Freemark Abbey Winery Frog’s Leap Winery Gargiulo Vineyards
1501 Big Rock Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3900
850 Rutherford Road Rutherford, CA 94573
800.929.2217 x318
1178 Galleron Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.3993
6204 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.2139
1091 Larkmead Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
800.574.9463
70 Rapp Lane Napa, CA 94558
707.255.3444
277 St. Helena Hwy S. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3104 x4208
3022 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574
800.963.9698
8815 Conn Creek Road Rutherford, CA 94573
707.963.4704
575 Oakville Crossroad Napa, CA 94558
707.944.2770
Girard Winery Tasting Room Godspeed Vineyards Goosecross Cellars Graeser Winery Winery Greenfield Winery Grgich Hills Groth Vineyards Gustavo Thrace Hagafen Cellars Hall Wines Hans Fahden Vineyards
6795 Washington Street Yountville, CA94599
707.968.9297
Heitz Cellars Helena View Johnston Vineyards Hendry Ranch Wines Hess Collection Winery Hill Climber Vineyards Hill Family Estate Honig Vineyard & Winery Hopper Creek Vineyard & Winery Hourglass Wines Humanitas Wine Company J. Kirkwood Winery Jarvis Winery Jessup Cellars Joel Gott Wines Joseph Phelps Vineyards
3655 Mount Veeder Road Napa, CA 94558
707.254.7766
1119 State Lane Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.1986
255 Petrified Forest Road Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.4437
205 Jim Oswald Way American Canyon, CA 94503
707.552.0362
1829 St. Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573
800.532.3057
750 Oakville Crossroad Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.0290
1021 McKinstry Street Napa, CA 94559
707.257.6796
4160 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.252.0781
401 St. Helena Hwy S. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.2620
4855 Petrified Forest Road Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.6760
Hartwell Vineyards Havens Wine Haywood Winery
5795 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.255.4269
2055 Hoffman Lane Napa, CA 94558
707.261.2000
27000 Ramal Road Sonoma, CA 95476
800.325.2764
HdV Wines
588 Trancas Street Napa, CA 94581
707.251.9121
1104 Adams Street, Suite 103 707.968.9332 St. Helena, CA 94574 1081 Round Hill Circle Napa, CA 94558
707.259.0349
1020 Borrette Lane Napa, CA 94558
707.252.4523
2970 Monticello Road Napa, CA 94558
800.255.5280 x150
6740 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.8523
945 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3365
200 Taplin Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2745
Judd’s Hill Juslyn Vineyards JV Wine & Spirits Kelham Vineyards
2332 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.255.2332
2900 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.265.1804
301 First Street Napa, CA 94559
707.253.2624
360 Zinfandel Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2000
Kent Rasmussen Winery Kirkland Ranch Winery Kuleto Estate Ladera Vineyards Laird Family Estate Larkmead Vineyards
1001 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5667
1 Kirkland Ranch Road Napa, CA 94588
707.254.9100
2470 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94575
707.963.9750
150 White Cottage Road S. Angwin, CA 94508
707.965.2445
5055 Solano Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.257.0360
1100 Larkmead Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.0167
Levendi Estates Lineage Vineyards Longfellow Wine Cellars
4225 Solano Avenue, Ste. 633 877.LEVENDI Napa, CA 94558
Long Meadow Ranch Winery
738 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
3022 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574 860 Kaiser Road Napa, CA 94558
800.963.9698 888.533.5569 707.963.4555
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NAPA VALLEY WINE DIRECTORY WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
Louis M. Martini Winery
254 South St. Helena Hwy St. Helena, CA 94574
707.968.3361
Neyers Vineyards
2153 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.8840
Luna Vineyards Lynch Vineyards Madonna Estate Madrigal Vineyards
2921 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.255.2474
Nichelini Winery, Inc.
2950 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0717
1040 Main Street, Suite 103 Napa, CA 94558
707.251.8822
Nickel & Nickel
8164 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
707.967.9600
5400 Old Sonoma Road Napa, CA 94559
707.255.8864
Noah Vineyards
6204 Washington Street Yountville, CA 94599
707.944.0675
3718 N. St. Helena Hwy Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.6577
7781 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.9665
Mahoney Vineyards Markham Vineyards
708 First Street Napa, CA 94558
707.265.9600
Oakville Ranch Vineyards O’ Brien Estate
1200 Orchard Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.252.8463
2812 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5292
8576 Highway 29 Rutherford, CA 94573
707.967.1003
Mason Cellars Mayacamas Vineyards McKenzie-Muller Vineyards & Winery Melanson Vineyard
714 First Street Napa, CA 94559
707.255.0658
1255 Lincoln Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515
707.963.5926
1155 Lokoya Road Napa, CA 94558
707.224.4030
Off the Map Wines OnTheEdge Winery Opus One Winery
7900 St. Helena Hwy. Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.9442
2530 Las Amigas Road Napa, CA 94559
707.252.0186
Ovid Napa Valley
255 Long Ranch Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3850
1537 Sage Canyon Road St. Helena, CA 94954
707.963.7404
4029 Hagen Road Napa, CA 94559
707.226.5587
Mendelson Vineyard
809 Coombs Street Napa, CA 94559
707.255.7825
Palmaz Vineyards Paloma Vineyard Paoletti Vineyards Paraduxx Patz & Hall Wine Company Peacock Family Vineyard Peju Province Winery Peter Michael Winery Phillip Togni Vineyard
4013 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7504
4501 Silverado Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.0689
7257 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.945.0890
Merryvale 1000 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574 707.963.7777 www.merryvale.com
851 Napa Valley Corporate Way, Ste. A 707.265.7700
Napa, CA 94558
MJA Vineyards/ Serene Cellars
647 Greenfield Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3394
Mi Sueno Winery
910 Enterprise Way, Suite M Napa, CA 94558
707.258.6358
Michael-Scott Wines Milat Vineyards Miner Family Vineyards
2993 Brookwood Drive Napa, CA 94558
707.226.1622
1091 St. Helena Hwy S. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0758
7850 Silverado Trail Oakville, CA 94562
800.366.WINE x17
Monticello Vineyards
4242 Big Ranch Road Napa, CA 94558
707.253.2802 x18
Moss Creek Winery
6015 Steele Canyon Road Napa, CA 94558
707.252.1295
Mumm Napa Valley
8445 Silverado Trail Rutherford, CA 94573
707.MUM.NAPA
Napa Cellars Napa Redwoods Estate Napa Valley Limoncello Co.
7481 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.2565
4723 Redwood Road Napa, CA 94558
707.226.1800
4100 Paoli Loop Road #D American Canyon, CA 94503
707.554.WINE
Napa Wine Company Neal Family Vineyards
7830-40 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.1710
716 Liparita Road Angwin, CA 94508
707.965.2800
PREMIUM LISTING POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Newton Vineyard
2555 Madrona Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.9000
Contact Norma Kostecka, Advertising Director at 707.256.2228 or email nkostecka@napanews.com
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3100 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.0770
8466 St. Helena Hwy. Rutherford, CA 94573
707.963.3600
12400 Ida Canyon Road Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.4459
3780 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3731
Phoenix Vineyards & Winery
3175 Dry Creek Road Napa, CA 94558
877.374.6364
Pillar Rock Vineyard Piña Cellars
6110 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.945.0101
8060 Silverado Trail Oakville, CA 94573
707.738.9328
Pine Ridge Winery PlumpJack Winery
5901 Silverado Trail Yountville, CA 94599
800.575.9777
620 Oakville Crossroad Oakville, CA 94562
707.945.1220
WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
Pope Valley Winery Prager Winery Port Works & Pride Mountain Vineyards Provenance Vineyards Quintessa Quixote Winery Raymond Vineyard Cellar & Redmon Family Vineyards Regusci Winery Renteria Wines Revana Family Vineyard Reverie Vineyard Winery & Reynolds Family Winery Ritchie Creek Vineyard Robert Biale Vineyards Robert Craig Wine Cellars Robert Keenan Winery Robert Mondavi Winery
6613 Pope Valley Road Pope Valley, CA 94567
707.965.1246
1281 Lewelling Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7678
4026 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.4949
1695 St. Helena Hwy. Rutherford, CA 94573
707.968.3633
1601 Silverado Trail Rutherford, CA 94573
707.967.1601
6126 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.2659
849 Zinfandel Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
800.525.2659 x1
1185 Starr Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
707.968.9252
5584 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.254.0403
1106 Clark Street Napa, CA 94559
707.253.7686
2930 St. Helena Hwy, North St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.8814
WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
Rutherford Grove Winery 1673 St. Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573 800.963.0544 www.rutherfordgrove.com Rutherford Hill Winery 200 Rutherford Hill Road Rutherford, CA 94573 800.963.1871 www.rutherfordhill.com
1520 Diamond Mountain Road 707.942.6800 Calistoga, CA 94515
Saddleback Cellars Saintsbury Salvestrin Estate Saviez Vineyards Sawyer Cellars School House Vineyard Schramsberg Vineyards Schweiger Vineyards Seavey Vineyard Sequoia Grove Vineyards Shafer Vineyards Sherwin Family Vinyards Signorello Vineyards Silenus Vintners
7802 Money Road Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.1305
1500 Los Carneros Avenue Napa, CA 94559
707.252.0592
397 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5105
4060 Silverado Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.5889
8350 St. Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573
707.963.1980
3549 Langtry Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.4240
1400 Schramsberg Road Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.4558
4015 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.4882
1310 Conn Valley Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.8339
8338 St. Helena Hwy Napa, CA 94558
800.851.7841
6154 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.2877
4060 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.1154
4500 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.255.5990
5225 Solano Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.299.3930
3266 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.258.2558
4024 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.4661
4038 Big Ranch Road Napa, CA 94558
707.257.7555
880 Vallejo Street Napa, CA 94559
707.252.2250 x1
3660 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.9177
7801 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
888.766.6328
Robert Pecota Winery Robert Sinskey Vineyards Robinson Family Vineyards Rocca Family Vineyards Rombauer Vineyards
3251 St. Helena Hwy St. Helena, CA 94574
707.942.6625
6320 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
800.869.2030
5880 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.8004
Silver Oak Cellars
915 Oakville Crossroad Oakville, CA 94562
800.273.8809
1130 Main Street Napa, CA 94559
707.257.8467
400 Silverado Trail Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.9581
3522 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5170
6121 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
800.997.1770
Round Pond Rubicon Estate Winery
87 Rutherford Crossroad Rutherford, CA 94574
707.963.9634
Silver Rose Winery Silverado Vineyards Smith - Madrone
4022 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2283
1991 St. Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573
800.782.4266
Sparrow Lane
1445 Summit Lake Road Angwin, CA 94508
707.815.1813
Rudd Vineyards & Winery 500 Oakville Crossroad Oakville, CA 94562 Rustridge Winery 2910 Lower Chiles Valley Rd St. Helena, CA 94574
707.944.8577
Spencer Roloson Winery
176 Main Street, Suite D St. Helena, CA 94574
707.968.9863
707.965.9353
Spottswoode Estate Vineyards & Winery
1902 Madrona Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.0134
Rutherford Wine Co.
1680 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 9457
707.968.3200
Spring Mountain Vineyard 2805 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.4188
S.E. Chase Family Cellars
2252 Sulphur Springs St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.1284
St. Barthelemey Cellars
800.286.2711
1001 Steele Canyon Road Napa, CA 94558
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NAPA VALLEY WINE DIRECTORY WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
WINERY
ADDRESS
PHONE
St. Clement Vineyards St. Helena Winery St. Supery Vineyards
2867 St. Helena Hwy. North St. Helena, CA 94574
800.331.8266
Truchard Vineyards
3234 Old Sonoma Road Napa, CA 94581
707.253.7153
100 Pratt Avenue St. Helena, CA 94574
877.245.6006
Tudal Winery
1015 Big Tree Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3947
8440 St. Helena Hwy. Rutherford, CA 94573
800.942.0809
Tulocay Winery
1426 Coombsville Road Napa, CA 94558
707.255.4064
Staglin Family Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Stags’ Leap Winery
1570 Bella Oaks Lane Rutherford, CA 94573
707.944.0477
8210 St. Helena Hwy Oakville, CA 94562
800.887.6285 x18
5766 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
866.422.7523
1183 Dunaweal Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
800.505.4850
6150 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
800.640.5327
Turnbull Wine Cellars Twomey Cellars V. Sattui Winery Van Asperen Vineyards
1111 White Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.7774
1680 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.5251
Sterling Vineyards Stonefly Vineyards Stonehedge Winery Stony Hill Vineyard Storybook Mountain Vineyards Stratford Winery Sullivan Vineyards Summers Winery & Vineyards Summit Lake Vineyards Sutter Home Family Vineyards Swanson Vineyards Tasting on Main
Steltzner Vineyards Tastings & Cave Tours By Appointment: 707.252.7272 Open 10 to 4:30 5998 Silverado Trail, Napa 1111 Dunaweal Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
800.726.6136
3780 Hagen Road Napa, CA 94558
707.252.3294
1004 Clinton Street Napa, CA 94559
707.256.444
3331 St. Helena Hwy N. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.2636
3835 Highway 128 Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.5310
3222 Ehlers Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3200
1090 Galleron Road Rutherford, CA 94573
877.244.7337
1171 Tubbs Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.5508
2000 Summit Lake Drive Angwin, CA 94508
707.965.2488
277 St. Helena Hwy S. St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3104 x4208
1271 Manley Lane Rutherford, CA 94573
707.967.3500
1142 Main Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.1042
Tedeschi Family Winery
2779 Grand Street Calistoga, CA 94515
510.688.0685
Terra Valentine The Terraces Toad Hall Cellars TOR Wines Trefethen Vineyards Trinchero Winery
3787 Spring Mountain Road St. Helena, CA 94574 1450 Silverado Trail South St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.8340
1978 W. Zinfandel Lane St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.6754
Trinity Oaks
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707.963.1707
1241 Adams Street, Ste. 1045 707.963.3100 St. Helena, CA 94574 1160 Oak Knoll Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.255.7700
3070 North St. Helena Hwy. St. Helena, CA 94574
800.473.4454
277 St. Helena Hwy S. St Helena, CA 94574
707.963.3104
Van Der Heyden Vineyards 4057 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.257.0130
Venge Vineyards Viader
424 Crystal Springs Road St. Helena, CA 94574
707.967.1008
1120 Deer Park Road Deer Park, CA 94576
707.963.3816
Vincent Arroyo Winery Vine Cliff Winery Vintner’s Collective Vinum Cellars Volker Eisele Family von Strasser Winery
2361 Greenwood Avenue Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.6995
7400 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
707.944.1364
1245 Main Street Napa, CA 94558
707.255.7150
135 Camino Dorado, Suite 6 Napa, CA 94558
707.254.8313
3080 Lower Chiles Valley Rd St. Helena, CA 94574
707.965.9485
1510 Diamond Mountain Rd Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.0930
Waterstone White Cottage Ranch
708 First Street Napa, CA 94559
707.265.9600
1217 Edwards Street St. Helena, CA 94574
707.965.0516
White Rock Vineyards Whitehall Lane Winery Whitford Cellars William Cole Vineyards William Harrison William Hill Estate Winery Wing Canyon Vineyards X Winery Young Ridge Estate
1115 Lome Vista Drive Napa, CA 94558
707.257.7922
1563 St. Helena Hwy St Helena, CA 94574
800.963.9454 x19
4047 East 3rd Avenue Napa, CA 94559
707.942.0840
2849 St. Helena Hwy. North St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.6100
1443 Silverado Trail St. Helena, CA 94574
707.963.8310
1761 Atlas Peak Road Napa, CA 94558
707.265.3024
3100 Mount Veeder Road Napa, CA 94558
707.265.8798
1405 Second Street Napa, CA 94559
707.204.9522 x9
945 Lincoln Avenue Napa, CA 94558
707.265.8400
Zahtila Vineyards ZD Wines
2250 Lake County Hwy Calistoga, CA 94515
707.942.9251
8383 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
800.487.7757
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Scenic views and a sophisticated dĂŠcor are the backdrop to this classic steak house that features fresh grilled fish, great martinis, and an extensive wine list. Located in the historic Silverado Mansion. For reservations call 257-0200
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